Word Direct Answers

What does "dissection" mean?

Dissection: Fig.: The act of separating or dividing for the purpose of critical examination.

Additional senses

  1. 2.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.

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