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anatomy 8 (heart, lungs, kidneys and main blood vessels front)

December 14, 2020 / brdionysius / Leave a comment

sorry but someone

has graffitied on this slide

jaded grad student

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anatomy 7 (heart, lungs, kidneys and main blood vessels back)

December 14, 2020 / brdionysius / Leave a comment

don’t get any ideas

for a barbeque fry-up

make a pie instead

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anatomy 6 (muscles front)

December 14, 2020 / brdionysius / Leave a comment

sorry for the long

anatomy lesson but

we all suffer too

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anatomy 5 (ribcage)

December 14, 2020 / brdionysius / Leave a comment

if you believe some

we came from adam’s ribcage

how are we not clones

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anatomy 4 (internal organs back)

December 14, 2020 / brdionysius / Leave a comment

these guts are a man’s

believe us that women look

just the same inside

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anatomy 3 (internal organs front)

December 14, 2020 / brdionysius / Leave a comment

some of us have guts

to stand up for what is right

some act like this dude

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anatomy 2 (skeleton and muscles back)

December 14, 2020 / brdionysius / Leave a comment

turn us over as

though we’re a meat pattie &

you’re flipping burgers

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anatomy 1 (skeleton front)

December 14, 2020 / brdionysius / Leave a comment

cut us in half &

we’d look a bit like this guy

pick out the bones first

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cells and cell division

December 14, 2020 / brdionysius / Leave a comment

yes, we often split

on body issues/stem cells

& joy division

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dna structure magnified, light hit

December 14, 2020 / brdionysius / Leave a comment

this is using a

magnifying glass to read

our bodies’ fine print

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