(And that isn't "gross" as in yucky, it's "gross" as in macroscopic or visible to the naked eye. Although some people would tell you that the first definition is just as appropriate.)
They're supposed to be every Thursday at 4:30, but sometimes, they just don't happen. I finally got to attend a session today though. The fourth years and the doctors present interesting cases that have come in for pathological analysis. To the unitiated, this is basically just looking at bloody bits of dead animal. And since I'm still woefully undereducated, that's what it seems like to me too. But I'm learning! Some cases are more interesting than others. Rabbit with a uterus full of cancer? Eh, pass. Goat brain with polioencephalomalacia that causes the brain to fluoresce under UV light?? Yes please! No one knows why it causes the brain to do this - there's theories that it might be related to break down of lipids, but nothing has been proven. You can see an example here: Polioencephalomalacia of ruminants
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