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*Examine all organs in a systematic manner - heart, great vessels, lung, thyroid, liver, gall bladder, spleen, pancreas, oesophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, adrenal glands, kidneys, gonads.
*Examine all organs in a systematic manner - heart, great vessels, lung, thyroid, liver, gall bladder, spleen, pancreas, oesophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, adrenal glands, kidneys, gonads.
*Open trachea, lungs, heart, oesophagus, stomach, and the intestinal tract and section others.
*Open trachea, lungs, heart, oesophagus, stomach, and the intestinal tract and section others.
*Take swabs as appropriate including heart blood, liver, spleen and kidney.
*Note the colour, size, shape and any abnormalities of each organ.
*Note the colour, size, shape and any abnormalities of each organ.
*Take samples for culture and histopathology from diseased tissues and collect faeces from the intestinal tract for parasites and culture
*Take sterile smear of heart blood for staining.
*Put liver, lung, kidney, spleen and intestine in both formal saline (transfer to 70% ethanol after 48 hours) and frozen in sterile container.
*Make impression smears of different parts of intestines.
*Take a sterile sample of any abnormal gut contents, make a smear in saline.
*Wash the gut contents out in saline, examine for signs of parasites.
*Inspect the gonads to sex definitively.
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