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Gruesome Cadavers On View At Exhibit

New York - Halloween is long gone, but New Yorkers will be able from Saturday to pay to view a roomful of human cadavers, fileted limbs and dissected organs as part of a gruesome yet realistic exhibit on the human body.

On November 19, 22 whole bodies and more than 260 organs will go on display in lower Manhattan's South Street Seaport, allowing visitors to see bodies damaged by obesity, black lungs ravaged by cigarette smoke, and close-ups of the central nervous, digestive and circulatory systems.

To highlight function, one of the cadavers is in an athletic pose, holding a football.

They are not meant to be gross, rather the stripped-down bodies allow people to "see how their body is put together, its structure, its function, and so they can learn something about the impact of disease," said Roy Glover, a retired anatomy professor working with the exhibit.

The cadavers were poor people and are on loan from the Dalian Medical University in China. They are preserved through a technique called polymer preservation, which uses liquid silicone rubber that is treated and hardened. The process can take more than a year, and makes the bodies impervious to decomposition.

The for-profit exhibit, where tickets cost $24.50 for adults, was organized by Premier Exhibitions Inc. There is a similar show open at the Museum of Science & Industry in Tampa, Florida that has drawn record crowds.