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"Body Worlds" exhibition held in Rome

2011-09-22 06:07:26 GMT2011-09-22 14:07:26(Beijing Time)  Xinhua English

A plastinated human body with a foetus is seen during the exhibition "Body Worlds" by Gunther von Hagen in Rome September 21, 2011. Von Hagen is a German anatomist who invented plastination, the method of preserving biological tissue specimens.

A visitor (L) looks at a plastinated human body during the exhibition "Body Worlds" by Gunther von Hagen in Rome September 21, 2011.

Visitors look at two plastinated human bodies during the "Body Worlds" exhibition by Gunther von Hagen in Rome September 21, 2011.

A visitor looks at a plastinated foetus during the "Body Worlds" exhibition by Gunther von Hagen in Rome September 21, 2011.

Two plastinated human bodies are posed with a soccer ball during the "Body Worlds" exhibition by Gunther von Hagen in Rome September 21, 2011.

A plastinated human body is seen during the exhibition "Body Worlds" by Gunther von Hagen in Rome September 21, 2011.

Von Hagen is a German anatomist who invented plastination, the method of preserving biological tissue specimens.

The exhibition shows whole bodies plastinated in lifelike poses and dissected to show various structures and system of human anatomy.

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