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v. To cut apart or separate (tissue), especially for anatomical study.

v. To examine, analyze, or criticize in minute detail: dissected the plan afterward to learn why it had failed. See Synonyms at analyze.

v. To study an animal's anatomy by cutting it apart; to perform a necropsy or an autopsy.

v. To study a plant or other organism's anatomy similarly.

v. To analyze an idea in detail by separating it into its parts.

v. To separate muscles, organs, and so on without cutting into them or disrupting their architecture.

v. Of an infection or foreign material, following the fascia separating muscles or other organs.

v. To divide into separate parts; to cut in pieces; to separate and expose the parts of, as an animal or a plant, for examination and to show their structure and relations; to anatomize.

v. To analyze, for the purposes of science or criticism; to divide and examine minutely.

To cut in pieces; divide into parts with or as with a cutting instrument: as, to dissect a fowl. Specifically

2. To cut in pieces, or separate the distinct or elementary parts of, as an animal or a plant, for the purpose of studying its organization or the functions and morbid affections of its organs and tissues; anatomize.

To examine part by part or point by point; treat or consider piecemeal; analyze, as for the purpose of criticism; describe in detail: as, to dissect a man's character.

In geology, to cut up or erode (a plateau, mountain, etc.) into numerous irregular valleys or ravines: as, a dissected plateau; a dissected mountain-range.

v. cut open or cut apart

v. make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features

"Those titles dissect companies that exhibit an attribute -- long-term financial success, say -- and then describe the behaviors they use to achieve that result."

dissected    dissecting    dissects   

analyze    criticize    dissected map    to dissect out    dissecting aneurism   

botanise    botanize    parse   

dissected    dissecting    dissection   

anatomize   

Brecht    Hecht    Select    affect    bedecked    checked    collect    confect    connect    correct   

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