Sunday, December 23, 2012

Hiatal Hernia's: condtions

A few months ago me and my gifted dissection group sawed off the rib cage for the thorax section of our studies. After passing the pleura and pericardium we found what looked like a second heart. About the third of the size of the cadaver's (not meant to sound disrespectful legally a name can't be given) was a hiatal hernia. A condition caused by possibly a wider than normal esophageal hiatus the stomach can pull up into the thorax. I plan to turn this into a digital painting