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dissecting
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Dissecting \Dis*sect"ing\, a.
Dividing or separating the parts of an animal or vegetable body; as, a dissecting aneurism, one which makes its way between or within the coats of an artery.
Of or pertaining to, or received during, a dissection; as, a dissecting wound.
Used for or in dissecting; as, a dissecting knife; a dissecting microscope.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of dissect English)
Usage examples of "dissecting".
Strippers and analyzers were busily at work on the fringes of the beam, dissecting out, isolating, and identifying each of the many scraps of extraneous thought accompanying the main beam.
In the next chapter I ask you simply to come with me through a day in the life of the lab as I go through the routine tasks of experimentation, training chicks, dissecting their brains, measuring their biochemical constituents in quantities of thousandths of a milligram, and trying to extract meaning from the tables of figures that these measurements produce.
I have others catching and dissecting flies, accumulating remarkable pebbles, cockleshells, etc.
Ngata spent it happily examining his specimens, dissecting those of which he had duplicates and getting blood up to his elbows, and explaining to anyone who would listen that this one was probably a rhynocephalian, while that one was more likely an eosuchian, like those ancestral to the dinosaurs.
All of them had spent hundreds of hours dissecting cadavers, and could distinguish at a glance between the ligament of Hesselbach and the ligament of Treitz, but none of them had had a single hour of instruction in cross-cultural medicine.
John Pleydell spoke with that cynical frankness which seems often to follow upon a few years devoted to practice at the Common Law Bar, where men in truth spend their days in dissecting the mental diseases of their fellow creatures, and learn to conclude that a pure and healthy mind is possessed by none.
Jake mentioned that he knew her when we were dissecting the likely terms of her prenup the day before?
The anesthesiologist told Thomas that the patient had suffered a dissecting aneurysm following a catheterization.
Though Jaina found the structure of the biotic computer hopelessly bewildering, Lowbacca was engrossed in dissecting the thing, using a small set of steristeel tools to snip here and move there, grunting in satisfaction as the fibers reattached themselves in new locations.
I tried to dissect a medium-sized herbivore, to see how similar the internal structure was to the cropper Planet Certification reported dissecting.
He waited until the unit had recorded all available data onto an isolinear chip, then began dissecting the entire mechanism, methodically extracting the coprocessors one at a time, scanning every component with his tricorder to record the extent of the damage (if any), then moving on to the next one.
By the time they'd finished dissecting God, the philosophers had used up all the other twenty or so letters of the ancient Greek alphabet, but Alpha and Omega will do very nicely for this morning.
His own hands, very narrow and long-fingered, wielded the tiny silver butter knife as if he were dissecting a lizard in his workroom.
There was a dissecting microscope on top of an old metal desk, and I set the magnification to twenty and adjusted the illuminator.
I've got a double-headed dissecting microscope set up here so we can be looking at the same field.