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dissecting

/daɪˈsɛktɪŋ/

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What does dissecting mean?

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of dissect

noun

  1. A dissection; a taking apart.

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IPA pronunciation

/daɪˈsɛktɪŋ/

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He hasn't any more feeling for them personally than for so many frogs that he might happen to be dissecting.
Jean WebsterDear EnemyProject Gutenberg ebook #238
We have seen that the great Galen, at Rome, five centuries after the time of Herophilus, was prohibited from dissecting the human subject.
Henry Smith Williams; Edward Huntington WilliamsA History of Science — Volume 1Project Gutenberg ebook #1705
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In the stove in the cellar charred human bones were found, and in the middle of the room stood a large dissecting table stained with blood.
H. B. (Henry Brodribb) IrvingA Book of Remarkable CriminalsProject Gutenberg ebook #446
They went for inspiration to field and forest rather than to the murky atmosphere of the dissecting and vivisection rooms.
Henry LindlahrNature Cure: Philosophy & Practice Based on the Unity of Disease & CureProject Gutenberg ebook #4273
The arena is not much more than large enough for the dissecting table which, by a lift, could be brought up from a preparing room below.
William, Sir OslerThe Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913Project Gutenberg ebook #1566