Crossword clues for dissected
dissected
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dissected \Dis*sect"ed\, a.
Cut into several parts; divided into sections; as, a dissected map.
(Bot.) Cut deeply into many lobes or divisions; as, a dissected leaf.
Dissect \Dis*sect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dissected; p. pr. & vb. n. Dissecting.] [L. dissectus, p. p. of dissecare; dis- + secare to cut. See Section.]
(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.
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To analyze, for the purposes of science or criticism; to divide and examine minutely.
This paragraph . . . I have dissected for a sample.
--Atterbury.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: dissect)
WordNet
adj. having one or more incisions reaching nearly to the midrib [syn: cleft]
Usage examples of "dissected".
It appears as if the entire cauda equina has been dissected out, starting at L1 and terminating at the sacrum.
INTO LEVEL 3 1989 NOVEMBER 13, MONDAY BY MONDAY MORNING-the day after he dissected Monkey O53-Dan Dalgard had decided to bring the problem with his monkeys to the attention of USAMRIID, at Fort Detrick.
Those cadavers which have been dissected have not been especially informative, though I am told preliminary examinations suggest that their neuromuscular systemology is unusually dense for a mammalian life-form.
He quickly dissected the clavicles and the pectoralis muscle group free from the chest wall.
I have already hinted, in my account of the reductive steps the group employed, that a variety of experimentally or theoretically inconvenient processes that also occurred during the behaviour, such as a contribution of the peripheral nervous system, and some of the polysynaptic inputs onto the motor neuron, were dissected away and no longer taken into consideration.
Hart dissected the stomach of a woman of thirty which resembled the stomach of a predaceous bird, with patches of tendon on its surface.
One last time he searched out and dissected the alternatives he had been mulling every day over the past months.
In the 1930s and 1940s research on one large mollusc, the squid, revealed that it had truly giant nerve axons, which could be dissected out individually and were big enough to insert electrodes into.
Enlightenment thinkers for having dissected man and hence distorted the true image of human life in objectifying human nature.
The different teams, in Interstellar City and aboard the Grandar Bay, each rehydrated one and dissected it.
For them such a dissected chunk of tissue was moribund, its responses no more than dying pathological spasms.
He dissected out of it a couple of the grayish yellow tubercles, and then, with a wire of platinum he streaked bits of this bacillus-swarming stuff on the moist surface of his serum jelly, on tube after tube of it.
She drove to a Pay-Less lot past the Beverly Center and dissected the contents of the can: two nonfat yogurt tubs, an unread paper, three Q-Tips and a phone bill with thirty-eight long-distance calls to the same number inthe San Fernando Valley, plus a receipt for a jungle gym delivered to a Valley address.
He knew what he knew, he had dissected all the arguments, he had pinned down and anatomised all the ifs and buts.
His glance, more penetrating than his bistouries, looked straight into your soul, and dissected every lie athwart all assertions and all reticences.