Cabrini sponsors trip to 'Body Worlds'

DAJNA HAVENS ASST. PERSPECTIVES EDITOR

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It takes·about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body, according to information at the "Body Worlds" exhibit at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. Interesting facts like this one are all located throughout an approximately one-and-a-half hour adventure into the intricacies of the human body.

The "Body Worlds'" exhibit was inspired by the German inventor of plastination, Gunther von Hagens, and is defined by the Franklin Institute as "the anatomical exhibition of real human bodies, [and] a first-of-its-kind exhibit in which guests learn about anatomy, physiology and health by viewing real human bodies, preserved through an extraordinary method called "plastination."

Plastination is a process where bodies that have died of natural