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Dissection

Dissection Meaning & Definition
Dissection Definition And Meaning

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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