On cadavers, how can you tell Nerves from blood vessels?
I mean other than remembering that a given nerve's location relative to other structures and blood vessels, can you just look at a nerve and tell that it is a nerve?
2007-10-27 11:22:22 · 4 answers · asked by Roberto 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
Nerves also tend to branch out A LOT at the ends. It will kind of look like spider webs. You can fray the nerves to make them look like this and it is one way to tell when you are dissecting.
Veins look like collapsed tubes. Arteries will still have some shape to them (especially if your cadaver had atherosclerosis!). Both kinds of blood vessels have definitive branches that come out at angles and will not fray the same way that nerves will.
2007-10-27 15:56:06 · answer #1 · answered by peanut509 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sure.
Nerves look white and are solid.
All blood vessels are hollow tubes.
This part of anatomy is easy
2007-10-27 19:20:54 · answer #2 · answered by Spreedog 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nerves grayish white and firm to touch. Blood vessels are double layered collapsed tubes are soft in touch pink or bluish in color
2007-10-28 07:51:06 · answer #3 · answered by J.SWAMY I ఇ జ స్వామి 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
vessels are almost always bigger and collapsed! on a cadaver
2007-10-27 19:46:58 · answer #4 · answered by afqt4816 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋