Sunday, January 30, 2011

Answer to Case 148

Answer: Non-parasite.

This case was signed out as "Not a human parasite. Most closely food material."

Specifically, we thought this looked like a citrus fruit juice sac (the little pieces of a citrus fruit like an orange or grapefruit).

Go the the Visual Dictionary for a nice schematic of what I'm referring to.

In order to prove our hypothesis, one of our lab techs sacrificed her orange and we dissected it. I think the resemblance to our specimen is clear:


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