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单词 dissection
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dissectionn.

/dɪˈsɛkʃən/
Etymology: < Latin dissectiōn-em, noun of action < dissecāre; used in medieval or modern Latin Perhaps immediately < French dissection (Paré, 16th cent.).
1. The action or process of cutting asunder or in pieces; division by cutting. Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > division by cutting > [noun]
section1559
dissection1611
secturea1643
chopping1725
severization1849
sectioning1887
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Dissection, a dissection; a cleauing in peeces.
1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 32 There must be many schisms and many dissections made in the quarry and in the timber, ere the house of God can be built.
1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I ii. ix. 141 As to the Dissection [after sacrifice], it was not made rashly, but with great Art.
1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 420 The spaniel dying for some venial fault, Under dissection of the knotted scourge.
2. spec. The methodical cutting up of an animal or a plant, for the purpose of displaying its internal structure.
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the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > processes > [noun] > dissection
anatomy?1541
anatoming1580
anatomizing1594
dissection1605
dissecation1633
Comparative Anatomy1675
anatomization1676
necrotomy1839
phytotomy1844
skeletonizing1869
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. G4 Thus haue I described and opened as by a kinde of dissection, those peccant humors. View more context for this quotation
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 18 Liuing dissections (as wee call them) are then put in vse, when we would finde out some action or vse of a part which by the dead carkas cannot bee discerned.
1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. i. 18 What Dissection cannot attain, ocular inspection in hundreds of other Seeds..will demonstrate.
1758 S. Johnson Idler 5 Aug. 137 I know not, that by living dissections, any discovery has been made by which a single malady is more easily cured.
1850 H. Martineau Introd. Hist. Peace (1877) III. iv. xiv. 134 Murders for the sake of selling bodies for dissection.
1881 T. H. Huxley in Nature No. 615. 347 For hundreds of years..the dissection of human bodies was impeded, and anatomists were confined to the dissection of dead animals.
3. The action of separating anything into elementary or minute parts for the purpose of critical examination; a ‘taking to pieces’, a minute examination; detailed analysis or criticism.
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the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > close examination, scrutiny > [noun] > instance of
perscrutation?a1425
perquisition1611
dissection1642
perreptation1656
critique1798
probe1903
check-up1921
close-up1923
1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 29 Thus ends this Section, or rather dissection of himselfe, short ye will say both in breath, and extent.
1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 405 In the particular Dissection of mens Actions.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 158 It is perhaps the best dissection of the human mind, that hath appeared in modern times.
1867 Deutsch in Rem. (1874) 1 Dissections of dogma and legend and ceremony.
4. Chemical analysis. Obsolete.
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the world > matter > chemistry > chemical assay or analytical chemistry > [noun] > general chemical analysis
dissection1605
anatomy1621
analysis1655
proximate analysis1831
1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke i. xiii. 63 Mercury is extracted out of euery thing, first of all in his dissection or seperation into a watery vapour.
1794 S. Williams Nat. & Civil Hist. Vermont 90 By accurate dissection..it has been found that this ill scented fluid is entirely distinct from the urine.
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5. Business. The analysis of invoices and accounts, in order that the various items may be entered to the account of the special departments to which they belong: see dissect v. 5.
6. concrete. That which has been cut asunder or dissected, or is in a dissected condition; anything which is the result or produce of dissecting.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part
panelc1450
dissectiona1586
dismembering1603
discrete1871
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. G2 All his [sc. the Poet's] kindes are not onlie in their vnited formes, but in their seuered dissections fully commendable.
7. Physical Geography. The breaking up by erosion of a flat surface such as a plateau or plain into hills, or flat uplands, and valleys.
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1909 in Cent. Dict. Suppl.
1937 S. W. Wooldridge & R. S. Morgan Physical Basis Geogr. xiii. 177 If the active deepening of the valleys is continued after the stage of mature dissection, the ridge-crests will remain sharp.
1968 R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 15/1 Deep canyon dissection is followed by secondary headward erosion of smaller tributaries.

Compounds

C1. attributive and in other combinations.
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1847 W. Reeves Eccl. Antiq. 66 (note) The Dissection-room panic caused many to resort to this place.
1889 Huxley in Pall Mall Gaz. 2 May None of the ordinary symptoms of dissection poison supervened.
C2. Applied to wounds, etc. contracted by dissectors.
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1884 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. (ed. 4) I. ii. 122 Dissection wounds.
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