Re: Question for the Medically-minded in the group...

"Katie_M" <seaDOTcomATvirginDOTnet> wrote in message
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> "x" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > Is there any manner in which to preserve excised organs that doesn't
> involve
> > breakable glass jars, and volumes of odorous liquid?
> >
> > -- 
> > x
> >
> > "being the smartest window-licker on the shortbus doesn't make you a
> genius"
> >      By the way, I'm petty and snide.
> >
> > Dumbass Dentistry -
> >      it's all fun and games until vegetation starts growing in someone's
> > pulmonary valved conduit.
> >
> >
>
> You could use a different container, but formaldehyde solution (formalin)
> would be a must (and you would have to be sure that the container could
cope
> with formaldehyde also).
>
> Dare I ask why you are asking?!?
>

Yeah, sure. I'm getting a transplant. I want to keep my old ticker, but
formaldehyde is not something I necessarily want around the house.

I don't think the "medical establishment" would go for it anyway.
I'm more asking out of morbid curiosity.

Thanks to all for their input.

-- 
x

"being the smartest window-licker on the shortbus doesn't make you a genius"
     By the way, I'm petty and snide.

Dumbass Dentistry -
     it's all fun and games until vegetation starts growing in someone's
pulmonary valved conduit.