About The Word Dissection
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Dissection
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What's The Definition Of Dissection?
[n] cutting so as to separate into pieces
[n] detailed part-by-part critical analysis or examination as of a literary work [n] a minute and critical analysis Synonyms | Synonyms for Dissection: Related Terms | Find terms related to Dissection: analysis | analyzation | anatomizing | anatomy | assay | assaying | breakdown | breaking down | breaking up | breakup | criticism | critique | diaeresis | division | docimasy | examination | gravimetric analysis | inspection | proximate analysis | quantitative analysis | reduction to elements | resolution | review | scrutiny | segmentation | semimicroanalysis | separation | subdivision See Also | analysis | analysis | analytic thinking | cut | cutting Dissection In Webster's Dictionary \Dis*sec"tion\, n. [Cf. F. dissection.]
1. The act of dissecting an animal or plant; as, dissection
of the human body was held sacrilege till the time of
Francis I.
2. Fig.: The act of separating or dividing for the purpose of
critical examination.
3. Anything dissected; especially, some part, or the whole,
of an animal or plant dissected so as to exhibit the
structure; an anatomical so prepared.
{Dissection wound}, a poisoned wound incurred during the
dissection of a dead body.
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