单词 | dissection |
释义 | dissectionn.ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. Categories » 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 1884 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. (ed. 4) I. ii. 122 Dissection wounds. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.a1586 |
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