You and Your Lab Partners in a Human Anatomy Course

You and your lab partners in a human anatomy course have just removed the intestines from an adult cadaver, and cut away connective tissues as necessary to uncoil the intestines into a straight line that could be measured.Your professor told you that the intestinal tract of an adult of this size and gender is typically about 13 ft.Your measurement is 22 ft.One of the lab partners insists that everything is smaller in preserved cadavers due to dehydration.Address this suggestion, and propose some other explanations for the difference.