article_snippet: Some  have been given the full-body plastinate process, while a series of 'single specimens' offer preserved organs or even slices of animal.
article_snippet: Embalming and Anatomical Dissection the curator Dr. Angelina Whalley on the exhibition website halts decay by pumping formalin into the body through the arteries.
article_snippet: Using dissection tools, the skin, fatty and connective tissues are removed in order to prepare the individual anatomical structures.
article_snippet: Dissection and Plastination of an entire body aims to illustrate the complexity of the animals' insides, and how different animals have adapted both the animals' anatomy and the animals' organ function to the animals' natural habitats.
article_snippet: The exhibition uses plastination, a technique developed by German anatomist Dr von Hagens in 1977 for preserving biological tissue specimen.
article_snippet: The process is used in anatomy to preserve bodies or body parts, by replacing water and fat with certain plastics, to create specimens that can be touched, do not smell or decay.
article_snippet: Plastination was originally used to preserve small specimens for medical study.
article_snippet: Plastination was only in the early 1990s that techniques were developed to plastinate whole body specimens.
article_snippet: Plastination is now used at more than 40 medical and dental schools throughout the world as an adjunct to anatomical dissection.
article_snippet: Past exhibitions have included a display in Barcelona, Spain which was mainly composed of plastinated Asian body parts and embryos.
article_snippet: An intricate display shows a chicken's blood vessels and veins which have been preserved using a technique called plastination .
article_snippet: Some animals, such as this shark, have been given the full-body plastinate process, while a series of 'single specimens' offer preserved organs or even slices of animal .
article_snippet: the exhibition which offers visitors an 'anatomical safari' past nearly one hundred anatomically dissected animals uses plastination, a technique developed by German anatomist Dr von Hagens in 1977 for preserving biological tissue specimen .