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n. The act or an instance of dissecting.

n. Something that has been dissected, such as a tissue specimen under study.

n. A detailed examination or analysis.

n. The act of dissecting, or something dissected

n. A minute and detailed examination or analysis

n. The act of dissecting an animal or plant.

n. Fig.: The act of separating or dividing for the purpose of critical examination.

n. Anything dissected; especially, some part, or the whole, of an animal or plant dissected so as to exhibit the structure; an anatomical so prepared.

n. The operation of cutting open or separating into parts. Specifically

n. The process of cutting into parts an animal or a plant, or a part of one, in such a way as to show its structure or to separate one or more of its organs or tissues for examination: as, the dissection of a dog; the dissection of a hand or a flower.

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n. The act of separating anything into distinct or elementary parts for the purpose of critical examination; treatment or consideration of something in detail or point by point.

n. A segment; a division; a part.

n. In botany, the condition of being dissected. See dissected.

n. In geology, the erosion of a land-surface into numerous irregular valleys. See dissect, 4.

n. detailed critical analysis or examination one part at a time (as of a literary work)

n. a minute and critical analysis

n. cutting so as to separate into pieces

"Regardless of the reasons, Indian anatomists and zoologists, who were no doubt just as curious as the Greeks about the origins of life, and as skilled in dissection, did not feel compelled to set their disciplines up in opposition to metaphysics."

analysis    analytic thinking    cut    cutting   

dissection tubercle    canonical dissection   

advection    affection    circumspection    collection    complexion    confection    connection    convection    correction    defection   

thrombosis    aneurysm    metastasis    hematoma    neuropathy    hemorrhage    reconstruction    pathology    lesion    evaluation