Robert J. Shiller

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.

American Economist

Lorraine Hansberry

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.

American Playwright

Shervin Pishevar

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.

Iranian Businessman

Jill Abramson

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.

American Editor

Simon McBurney

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.

English Actor

Torrey DeVitto

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.

American Actress

Amanda Shires

It's weird to take your work into a room and everybody reads it. Then comes the terror part, the dissection.

American Musician

Maximillian Degenerez

Bridge the gap with closed minds though careful dissection of ideas and solid presentation of fact.

Portuguese Artist

Kevin Patterson

Storms are sex. They exist alongside and are indifferent to words and description and dissection.

Canadian Writer

Frederik Pohl

The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.

American Writer

Refers to precise scientific practices, often involving biology or anatomy.

Scientific Procedure

Used in schools to provide hands-on learning about living organisms.

Educational Tool

Sometimes used metaphorically to describe a detailed examination of non-living things.

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Involves breaking something down to understand it better, usually about complex issues.

Critical Analysis

A thoughtful, often academic process of analyzing something in detail.

Intellectual Exercise

Looks into how the parts of something work together or influence each other.

Focus on Structure

 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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 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,

How whales breathe,...

 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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 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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 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

The Surprising...

 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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 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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 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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 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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 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,

Dissection

The act of cutting something open to study its inside parts.

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A thorough analysis or examination of something.

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