late October to early February The moment when students meet the body to be dissected is full of tension. Each body on the table is a person, who has lived a life of several decades, and is lying there . Everybody in the dissection course silently prays for the souls of body donors However, once the covering cloth is removed, and a knife cuts the skin to reveal the interior of the body, During the 4 months that follow, students are busy identifying and removing each and every structure constituting the human body—muscles, blood vessels, nerves, thoracic and abdominal organs, etc.