Dissection
noun
The act of cutting something open to study its inside parts.
In biology class, the students performed a dissection on a frog to understand its anatomy.
Often appears as...
- perform a dissection
- surgical dissection
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Academic
noun
A thorough analysis or examination of something.
The author's new book is a dissection of modern society's obsession with fame.
Often appears as...
- deep dissection
- intellectual dissection
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Academic
noun
The act of cutting something open to study its inside parts.
In biology class, the students performed a dissection on a frog to understand its anatomy.
Often appears as...
- perform a dissection
- surgical dissection
Usage tips
Academic
noun
A thorough analysis or examination of something.
The author's new book is a dissection of modern society's obsession with fame.
Often appears as...
- deep dissection
- intellectual dissection
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Scientific Procedure
Refers to precise scientific practices, often involving biology or anatomy.
The dissection of the specimen was crucial for the research.
Pro Tip 2/3Educational Tool
Used in schools to provide hands-on learning about living organisms.
Dissection helped us see how the organs fit together.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Literal
Sometimes used metaphorically to describe a detailed examination of non-living things.
The mechanic's dissection of the engine revealed the problem.
Pro Tip 1/3Scientific Procedure
Refers to precise scientific practices, often involving biology or anatomy.
The dissection of the specimen was crucial for the research.
Pro Tip 2/3Educational Tool
Used in schools to provide hands-on learning about living organisms.
Dissection helped us see how the organs fit together.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Literal
Sometimes used metaphorically to describe a detailed examination of non-living things.
The mechanic's dissection of the engine revealed the problem.
Pro Tip 1/3Scientific Procedure
Refers to precise scientific practices, often involving biology or anatomy.
The dissection of the specimen was crucial for the research.
Pro Tip 2/3Educational Tool
Used in schools to provide hands-on learning about living organisms.
Dissection helped us see how the organs fit together.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Literal
Sometimes used metaphorically to describe a detailed examination of non-living things.
The mechanic's dissection of the engine revealed the problem.
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Rick Guidotti: From...
these kids grow very, very tall, at risk of an aortic dissection, but they're amazing kids, and I thought, how gorgeous. And I understood the importance of this image, how important it was to show how beautiful, and to show how the image presents itself. But isn't there another way to show it? Because nobody, and I've photographed thousands of kids now,
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How whales breathe,...
It basically looks like a hockey stick with a blade on the end of it. And doing a dissection of a whale is a very difficult process. You literally have to get into your work. It's kind of like a giant bloody construction zone. You're wearing a hard hat, you're working with heavy machinery. In this case, by the way,
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How a Shark's Vision...
dissection using this common shark found in waters all over the world. - I'm getting towards the back of the eyeball. We'll be able to free it up and remove it from the skull. This is the back half of the eyeball. One of the really interesting things about sharks' eyes
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How do we learn to work...
extremely delicate dissection that can preserve erectile function. That'll be up to the attending surgeon, though, but he's not there yet. She and the team put the patient under, and she leads the initial eight-inch incision in the lower abdomen.
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The Surprising...
and she does with really rare specimens like that two-headed shark she can actually do an mri scan to understand the shark's brain structure without doing a full dissection there's another cool benefit of scanning brands in an mri machine
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Grave Robbers PIPE National...
like the one we're in here medical colleges were not covering up the fact that they offered courses and practical Anatomy or dissection and sometimes they would even state right there in the catalog ample material provided for dissection
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Quyen Nguyen:...
where everything's color-coded. Nerves are yellow, arteries are red, veins are blue. That's so easy anybody could become a surgeon, right? However, when we have a real patient on the table, this is the same neck dissection --
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Exclusive: Building the...
evidence that exists in the fossil record and I use that evidence to predict what a face might look like the key to all that is comparative anatomy so I have to do a lot of facial dissection of great apes African Apes
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Jack Choi: On the...
students can experience the dissection without a human cadaver. And the table form is important, and since it's touch-interactive, just like the way they do dissections in the lab,
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Bob Mankoff: Anatomy of...
help treat cancer?" Oh, goodness. You're reading about this smart stuff, this intelligent dissection of the immune system. You glance over at this, and it says,
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Rick Guidotti: From...
these kids grow very, very tall, at risk of an aortic dissection, but they're amazing kids, and I thought, how gorgeous. And I understood the importance of this image, how important it was to show how beautiful, and to show how the image presents itself. But isn't there another way to show it? Because nobody, and I've photographed thousands of kids now,
Video examples
How whales breathe,...
It basically looks like a hockey stick with a blade on the end of it. And doing a dissection of a whale is a very difficult process. You literally have to get into your work. It's kind of like a giant bloody construction zone. You're wearing a hard hat, you're working with heavy machinery. In this case, by the way,
Video examples
How a Shark's Vision...
dissection using this common shark found in waters all over the world. - I'm getting towards the back of the eyeball. We'll be able to free it up and remove it from the skull. This is the back half of the eyeball. One of the really interesting things about sharks' eyes
Video examples
How do we learn to work...
extremely delicate dissection that can preserve erectile function. That'll be up to the attending surgeon, though, but he's not there yet. She and the team put the patient under, and she leads the initial eight-inch incision in the lower abdomen.
Video examples
The Surprising...
and she does with really rare specimens like that two-headed shark she can actually do an mri scan to understand the shark's brain structure without doing a full dissection there's another cool benefit of scanning brands in an mri machine
Video examples
Grave Robbers PIPE National...
like the one we're in here medical colleges were not covering up the fact that they offered courses and practical Anatomy or dissection and sometimes they would even state right there in the catalog ample material provided for dissection
Video examples
Quyen Nguyen:...
where everything's color-coded. Nerves are yellow, arteries are red, veins are blue. That's so easy anybody could become a surgeon, right? However, when we have a real patient on the table, this is the same neck dissection --
Video examples
Exclusive: Building the...
evidence that exists in the fossil record and I use that evidence to predict what a face might look like the key to all that is comparative anatomy so I have to do a lot of facial dissection of great apes African Apes
Video examples
Jack Choi: On the...
students can experience the dissection without a human cadaver. And the table form is important, and since it's touch-interactive, just like the way they do dissections in the lab,
Video examples
Bob Mankoff: Anatomy of...
help treat cancer?" Oh, goodness. You're reading about this smart stuff, this intelligent dissection of the immune system. You glance over at this, and it says,
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Robert J. Shiller
American Economist
I want to know diverse facts about such things as galaxies or molecules or proteins or insect species. I have an impulse to want to know the little details, which are usually of no significance to non-specialists. I own a dissection microscope, and if there is an insect in the house, I sometimes catch it and look at it under the microscope.
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Lorraine Hansberry
American Playwright
I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist - that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality.
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Shervin Pishevar
Iranian Businessman
There was a time when events that define the human condition were subject to very limited and time-delayed analysis. In the 21st Century and beyond, however, the human condition is subject to real-time, overwhelming analysis and dissection.
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Jill Abramson
American Editor
As someone who has spent a lot of her career as an investigative reporter, I'll confess that a frustration of mine has always been that so much investigative journalism involves a dissection of events in the past.
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Simon McBurney
English Actor
There's something hopeful about 'Endgame.' Beckett strips everything away and asks what remains. There's this surgical dissection of the soul, but at the bottom, you find shafts of light.
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Torrey DeVitto
American Actress
Not only does virtual dissection save animals, it also saves schools money and helps the environment by sparing the use of toxic chemicals typically used to embalm animals.
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Amanda Shires
American Musician
It's weird to take your work into a room and everybody reads it. Then comes the terror part, the dissection.
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Maximillian Degenerez
Portuguese Artist
Bridge the gap with closed minds though careful dissection of ideas and solid presentation of fact.
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Kevin Patterson
Canadian Writer
Storms are sex. They exist alongside and are indifferent to words and description and dissection.
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Frederik Pohl
American Writer
The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.
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Robert J. Shiller
American Economist
I want to know diverse facts about such things as galaxies or molecules or proteins or insect species. I have an impulse to want to know the little details, which are usually of no significance to non-specialists. I own a dissection microscope, and if there is an insect in the house, I sometimes catch it and look at it under the microscope.
Quote examples
Lorraine Hansberry
American Playwright
I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist - that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality.
Quote examples
Shervin Pishevar
Iranian Businessman
There was a time when events that define the human condition were subject to very limited and time-delayed analysis. In the 21st Century and beyond, however, the human condition is subject to real-time, overwhelming analysis and dissection.
Quote examples
Jill Abramson
American Editor
As someone who has spent a lot of her career as an investigative reporter, I'll confess that a frustration of mine has always been that so much investigative journalism involves a dissection of events in the past.
Quote examples
Simon McBurney
English Actor
There's something hopeful about 'Endgame.' Beckett strips everything away and asks what remains. There's this surgical dissection of the soul, but at the bottom, you find shafts of light.
Quote examples
Torrey DeVitto
American Actress
Not only does virtual dissection save animals, it also saves schools money and helps the environment by sparing the use of toxic chemicals typically used to embalm animals.
Quote examples
Amanda Shires
American Musician
It's weird to take your work into a room and everybody reads it. Then comes the terror part, the dissection.
Quote examples
Maximillian Degenerez
Portuguese Artist
Bridge the gap with closed minds though careful dissection of ideas and solid presentation of fact.
Quote examples
Kevin Patterson
Canadian Writer
Storms are sex. They exist alongside and are indifferent to words and description and dissection.
Quote examples
Frederik Pohl
American Writer
The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.
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