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dissecting
/daɪˈsɛktɪŋ/
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What does dissecting mean?
verb
- present participle and gerund of dissect
noun
- 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.
We have seen that the great Galen, at Rome, five centuries after the time of Herophilus, was prohibited from dissecting the human subject.
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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.
They went for inspiration to field and forest rather than to the murky atmosphere of the dissecting and vivisection rooms.
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.