Crossword clues for dissection
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dissection \Dis*sec"tion\, n. [Cf. F. dissection.]
The act of dissecting an animal or plant; as, dissection of the human body was held sacrilege till the time of Francis I.
Fig.: The act of separating or dividing for the purpose of critical examination.
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Anything dissected; especially, some part, or the whole, of an animal or plant dissected so as to exhibit the structure; an anatomical so prepared.
Dissection wound, a poisoned wound incurred during the dissection of a dead body.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of dissecting, or something dissected 2 A minute and detailed examination or analysis
WordNet
n. cutting so as to separate into pieces
a minute and critical analysis
detailed part-by-part critical analysis or examination as of a literary work
Wikipedia
Dissection (from Latin dissecare "to cut to pieces"; also called anatomization), is the dismembering of the body of an animal or plant to study its anatomical structure. Autopsy is used in pathology and forensic medicine to determine the cause of death in humans. It is carried out by or demonstrated to biology and anatomy students in high school and medical school. Less advanced courses typically focus on smaller subjects, such as small formaldehyde-preserved animals, while the more advanced courses normally use cadavers. Consequently, dissection is typically conducted in a morgue or in an anatomy lab.
Dissection has been used for centuries to explore anatomy. Objections to the use of cadavers have led to the use of alternatives including virtual dissection of computer models.
Dissection was a Swedish extreme metal band. They formed in 1989 by Jon Nödtveidt and later disbanded in 2006, followed by Nödtveidt's suicide.
Dissection may refer to:
- Dissection, as in the dissection of a plant or animal
- The dissection problem in geometry
- Dissection (medical) is a tear in a blood vessel
- Dissection (band), a Swedish black metal band
- Dissection, a 1997 Crimson Thorn album
- Dissected plateau
In medical pathology, a dissection is a tear within the wall of a blood vessel, which allows blood to separate the wall layers. By separating a portion of the wall of the artery (a layer of the Tunica intima or tunica media), a dissection creates two lumens or passages within the vessel, the native or true lumen, and the "false lumen" created by the new space within the wall of the artery.
Dissection is the second full-length album by Crimson Thorn. The album was released in 1997 on Morphine Records and later released on Little Rose Productions.
Usage examples of "dissection".
The trunks contained field space suits, battery packs, rubber gloves, surgical scrub suits, syringes, needles, drugs, dissection tools, flashlights, one or two human surgery packs, blunt scissors, sample bags, plastic bottles, pickling preservatives, biohazard bags marked with red flowers, and hand-pumped garden sprayers for spraying beach on space suits and objects that needed to be decontaminated.
This suffering was not merely incidental to dissections, but in many of the experiments recorded WAS DELIBERATELY INFLICTED.
She had a fair knowledge of anatomy, mostly learned in the battlefield while looking at the actuality of torn-open bodies, not the neater, more leisurely education of medical school, or dissections of the dead.
Scholar carried one whole specimen into the deckhouse as a subject for odylic dissection.
The older observers thought this woman must have had two orifices to her womb, one of which had some connection with the stomach, as they had records of the dissection of a female in whom was found a conformation similar to this.
Miller collapsed during the dissection of a dead stickman and had to be put to bed, where she slept soundly for hours and awoke screaming.
The anatomical knowledge of the Talmudists was derived chiefly from dissection of the animals.
They used the last of their Components to implement their stolid metaphysic of dissection and pushing.
Reza and I pride ourselves on the speed and tidiness of our dissections -and this teamwork is yet another key feature of scientific labour Most scholarly work is intensely lonely.
Vesalius actually causing to be drawn and engraved two muscles which he knew were not found in the human subject, because they had been described by Galen, from dissections of the lower animals.
Scientific thoroughness had prompted the following dissections and now there could be no doubt.
I will repeat the injections and dissection with the other eight birds, and clean the training pens ready for tomorrow.
And the Schenckius,--the folio filled with casus rariores, which had strayed in among the rubbish of the bookstall on the boulevard,--and the noble old Vesalius with its grand frontispiece not unworthy of Titian, and the fine old Ambroise Pare, long waited for even in Paris and long ago, and the colossal Spigelius with his eviscerated beauties, and Dutch Bidloo with its miracles of fine engraving and bad dissection, and Italian Mascagni, the despair of all would-be imitators, and pre-Adamite John de Ketam, and antediluvian Berengarius Carpensis,--but why multiply names, every one of which brings back the accession of a book which was an event almost like the birth of an infant?
He was finally given the proper signal by her appearance and behaviour, and insisted on an examination which showed a right breast far advanced in cancer, the nipple inverted, the flesh crepey, and that very day she was taken to hospital and the following morning underwent a radical mastectomy and axillary node dissection.
But he lacked facilities for experiment and regretted the Museum at Alexandria, where he had studied in his youth, with its laboratories and dissection rooms, its clash of opinions, and its competition between inventive minds.