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The Virtual Anatomy, Ready for Dissection
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PEOPLE wear 3-D glasses for new movies like "The Adventures of Tintin." But for medical school?
The answer is yes at the New York University School of Medicine, which is using 3-D technology to update a rite of passage for would-be doctors: anatomy class.
In a basement lab at NYU Langone Medical Center in Manhattan last month, students in scrubs and surgical gloves hovered over cadavers on gurneys, preparing, as would-be doctors have for centuries, to separate rib cages and examine organs. But the dead are imperfect stand-ins for the living. Death--and embalming fluid--take a toll.
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