Dissection
[dɪ'sekʃn] or [dɪ'sɛkʃən]
Definition
(noun.) cutting so as to separate into pieces.
(noun.) detailed critical analysis or examination one part at a time (as of a literary work).
(noun.) a minute and critical analysis.
Typist: Pansy--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of dissecting an animal or plant; as, dissection of the human body was held sacrilege till the time of Francis I.
(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.
Editor: Matt
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Anatomy.[2]. Scrutiny, analysis, examination, investigation, sifting.
Checked by Lionel
Examples
- Here's a wenerable old lady a-- lyin' on the carpet waitin' for dissection, or galwinism, or some other rewivin' and scientific inwention. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- One which I kept alive was certainly in this condition, the cause, as appeared on dissection, having been inflammation of the nictitating membrane. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- His dissections were confined to the lower animals. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Harvey professed to learn and teach anatomy, not from books, but from dissections, not from the dogmas of the philosophers, but from the fabric of nature. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
Typist: Preston