External Anatomy

The first day of our pig dissection was mainly focused on observing the external anatomy, no slicing or cutting was involved during the first part of the day. The immediate reflects my partner and I discovered was its pale moist skin. It has all of its limbs attached with four digits with hoofs on each hands and feet. The fetal pig's epidermis was its fine, white, short hair. In the abdomen, the part of the trunk between thorax and the perineum was its teats parallel to one another. Between the teats lies the umbilical cord and at the end of it was the urogential opening. The scrotum identified the sex of the pig, male. The second part involved cutting a thin layer of the marginal papillae from the tongue and viewing it under the microscope.