Today in anatomy, we had a lecture on the perineum (the lower pelvis) and in histology we tackled the classification and development of blood cells.
I also decided to run for one of the first-year Student Senate positions and had to give a speech to my classmates. Well, I had to give a speech, at least; the classmates were mostly absent. Of 200 students, 15 are running for 5 spots on the Senate. About 20 non-candidates showed up for the speeches which were merely off the cuff comments in which each person essentially said that they have lots of leadership experience.
The winners will be announced on Monday. I eagerly await finding out if my student election losing streak from junior high will continue.
TIL: Healthy adults produce 10,000,000,000 red blood cells every hour.
When someone is diagnosed with any stage of testicular cancer, the first thing that's done is the excision of the diseased testis*. Conveniently, the testes are extremely accessible through the scrotum, right? Wrong! The testes and scrotum actually have totally separate lymphatic drainage. This becomes important with cancer because any metastases flow through the lymphatic drainage and get caught in the downstream lymph nodes. So, the last thing a surgeon wants to do is expose a second lymph bed to possible metastases by dragging the cancerous testis through the scrotum. Because of this, every orchiectomy (testicle removal) is performed through the abdomen.
*In yet another example of complicated terminology for no good reason, testis is the technical anatomical term for a testicle. They are completely synonymous.
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