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verb

Dissect v. t. (past & past part. dissected; pres. part. dissecting)

(Anat.) To divide into separate parts; to cut in pieces; to separate and expose the parts of, as an animal or a plant, for examination and to show their structure and relations; to anatomize.

To analyze, for the purposes of science or criticism; to divide and examine minutely. "This paragraph... I have dissected for a sample."

adjective

Dissected adj.

Cut into several parts; divided into sections; as, a dissected map.

(Bot.) Cut deeply into many lobes or divisions; as, a dissected leaf.

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Etymology of 'Dissected'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dissected" Quotes from Famous Books

... types of Greek, Roman, and English Coins, than can be obtained by many hours' careful reading. Instead of fac-simile Engraving being given of that which is already an enigma to the tyro, the most striking and characteristic features of the Coin are dissected and placed by themselves, so that the eye ...

— Notes and Queries, Number 201, September 3, 1853 • Various

... merits of the Italian attempts at melo-tragedy. To break a butterfly upon the wheel is, however, no fit function of criticism: and probably no one would have smiled more than the author of this improvisation, at the thought of its being gravely dissected just four hundred years after the occasion it was meant to serve had long been given over ...

— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series • John Addington Symonds

... troubled him horribly. Was it not exasperating for a man who had seen and dissected so many, that there should be always two before his eyes, even when they were closed—that of this old rascal and of this unfortunate woman? In order not to complicate this impression with another that humiliated him, he got rid of the packages of bank bills taken from Caffie, by ...

— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet

... coming down of their courses, and then, on a sudden, when their terms press forward to purgation, they are molested with great and unusual pains. Sometimes these break of their own accord, others are dissected and opened by physicians; others never break at all, which bring on disorders that ...

— The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher • Anonymous

... that the heart is divided into two approximately equal parts by an impermeable septum of tough fibres. Yet, Galen, who dissected the hearts of a vast number of the lower animals according to his own account, maintained that this septum was permeable, and that the air, entering one side of the heart from the lungs, passed through it into the opposite side and was then ...

— A History of Science, Volume 1(of 5) • Henry Smith Williams

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