Dissection

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dissection \Dis*sec"tion\, n. [Cf. F. dissection.]
     1. The act of dissecting an animal or plant; as, dissection
        of the human body was held sacrilege till the time of
        Francis I.
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     2. Fig.: The act of separating or dividing for the purpose of
        critical examination.
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     3. Anything dissected; especially, some part, or the whole,
        of an animal or plant dissected so as to exhibit the
        structure; an anatomical so prepared.
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     {Dissection wound}, a poisoned wound incurred during the
        dissection of a dead body.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  dissection
       n 1: cutting so as to separate into pieces
       2: a minute and critical analysis
       3: detailed part-by-part critical analysis or examination as of
          a literary work

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  28 Moby Thesaurus words for "dissection":
     analysis, analyzation, anatomizing, anatomy, assay, assaying,
     breakdown, breaking down, breaking up, breakup, criticism,
     critique, diaeresis, division, docimasy, examination,
     gravimetric analysis, inspection, proximate analysis,
     quantitative analysis, reduction to elements, resolution, review,
     scrutiny, segmentation, semimicroanalysis, separation,
     subdivision