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dissect
/dɪˈsɛkt/
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What does dissect mean?
verb
- To study an animal's anatomy by cutting it apart; to perform a necropsy or an autopsy.
- To study a plant's or other organism's anatomy similarly.
- (figuratively) To analyze an idea in detail by delineating between its parts.
More meanings (3)
verb
- To separate muscles, organs, etc. without cutting into them or disrupting their architecture.
- Of an infection or foreign material, following the fascia separating muscles or other organs.
- (derogatory, figuratively) To decontextualize an idea, especially through overanalysis by delineating between its parts too strongly based on style, usually involving pedantry, at the expense of substance.
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IPA pronunciation
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But when we come to dissect it with attention, it will appear to be made up of nothing but fair-sounding words.
He could dissect well under the simple microscope, but I think it was by dint of his great patience and carefulness.
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As often happens, when such refusals are made, the practitioners resolved to disinter the body and dissect it at leisure, in private.
So closely were these small crystals enveloped with the mucilaginous matter that it was almost impossible to separate or dissect them from it.
Trained at Louvain, he had, from his earliest youth, an ardent desire to dissect, and cut up mice and rats, and even cats and dogs.