Vocabulary Lesson

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Welcome to today's medical #Vocabulary lesson, crafted by me, with great love and care, as I attempt to share my knowledge, education, and experiences with y'all... LIVE! On X—your 24/7 source for what's really going down in all our towns.
Today's fancy-pants word is pluck.

#DYK that the pluck is the heart, lungs, esophagus, trachea, and tongue. When you perform a necropsy/autopsy, after making your main incisions and disarticulating/reflecting the limbs, you eventually get to the fun part where you get to remove the pluck. One of my teachers even took a picture of me, smiling quite happily (pretty sure I was wearing my light green scrub pants and my white scrub top with all the frogs), as I held onto the pluck from my very first necropsy!😁 (credits to TM-W, you were a most excellent instructor).

Necropsy backstory:
Here I go again, remembering the fun I had at the laboratory at the university in Kamloops, BC back in 2016 when I got to perform a necropsy on a dog who was sadly HBC (hit by car). Aw, so sad, but hey, look on the bright side man, at least he was euthanized humanely and didn't suffer from a BDLD (big dog, little dog) tragedy, and his death provided me with the opportunity to learn a little A&P (Anatomy & Physiology).

So please remember, don't fuck with me 'cause I wield my weapons surgically, I hold my scalpel steadily, I can incise/excise very precisely, and I can understand all that fancy-pants medical terminology. I'm very practiced with handling sharp objects regularly—I am familiar with things like biopsies, invasive and non-invasive surgeries, procedures, techniques, collecting samples properly.

I can aim a needle into your knee, collect that joint fluid properly, grab a glass slide, check the viscosity, smear a couple slides, label them accurately so the dudes in histopathology can do their lab analysis properly. Then I take that syringe and I plunge it in/to the red (or white) top tube that ya got (that's the one that's additive free) and I add the rest to that LLT—that's the one with the EDTA, which stands for Ethylene-diamine-tetra-acetic acid—A chemical compound that importantly preserves some of the fluid's original properties so it can be examined and analyzed fully and properly.

That concludes today's medical vocabulary/English lesson generously interlaced with some biology, anatomy/physiology, laboratory procedures, and the fascinating subject of chemistry (I especially love the math & symbology❤️)