Definition of dissection

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

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Anatomy :: Anatomy (n.) The art of dissecting, or artificially separating the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dissection..
Demonstrate :: Demonstrate (v. t.) To exhibit and explain (a dissection or other anatomical preparation).
Histotomy :: Histotomy (n.) The dissection of organic tissues.
Vivisection :: Vivisection (n.) The dissection of an animal while alive, for the purpose of making physiological investigations..
Splenotomy :: Splenotomy (n.) Dissection or anatomy of the spleen.
Ornithotomy :: Ornithotomy (n.) The anatomy or dissection of birds.
Phytotomy :: Phytotomy (n.) The dissection of plants; vegetable anatomy.
Subject :: Subject (a.) That which is subjected, or submitted to, any physical operation or process; specifically (Anat.), a dead body used for the purpose of dissection..
Resurrectionist :: Resurrectionist (n.) One who steals bodies from the grave, as for dissection..
Costotome :: Costotome (n.) An instrument (chisel or shears) to cut the ribs and open the thoracic cavity, in post-mortem examinations and dissections..
Arteriotomy :: Arteriotomy (n.) That part of anatomy which treats of the dissection of the arteries.
Burkism :: Burkism (n.) The practice of killing persons for the purpose of selling their bodies for dissection.
Demonstration :: Demonstration (n.) The exhibition and explanation of a dissection or other anatomical preparation.
Anthropotomy :: Anthropotomy (n.) The anatomy or dissection of the human body; androtomy.
Burke :: Burke (v. t.) To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection..
Splandrel :: Splanchnotomy (n.) The dissection, or anatomy, of the viscera..
Dissection :: Dissection (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..
Herpetotomy :: Herpetotomy (n.) The anatomy or dissection of reptiles.
Angiotomy :: Angiotomy (n.) Dissection of the blood vessels and lymphatics of the body.
Osteotomy :: Osteotomy (n.) The dissection or anatomy of bones; osteology.
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