prosectv.
/prə(ʊ)ˈsɛkt/, U.S. /proʊˈsɛk(t)/ Chiefly Anatomy.
transitive. To dissect (esp. a cadaver or part of one) in preparation for anatomical demonstration or research.
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1890 Cent. Dict. Prosect, to dissect (a subject) beforehand; prepare (a cadaver) for anatomical demonstration by a professor.
a1899 G. Allen Whitsun at Aldeburgh (1900) 116 Had Powell some saga to tell, Or did Beddard prosect Lepidotus..As we lolled on the Alde in the Lotus?
1989 Jrnl. Appl. Toxicol. 9 191 Effects were observed visually up to the death of the animals, and these plus survivors killed after 10 h were prosected for macroscopic and histopathological examination of internal organs.
2000 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 179 229/1 Five year-one medical students who completed gross anatomy served as teaching staff... Human cadavers were prosected by the medical students.
Derivatives
proˈsected adj.
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1975 Lancet 19 Apr. 877/2 Several anatomy departments..have already begun to teach almost exclusively by means of prosected specimens.
1990 Jrnl. Nuclear Med. 31 1851 Autoradiography and histochemical staining of the prosected heart demonstrated high correlation for myocardial necrosis.
proˈsection n. dissection, esp. in preparation for anatomical demonstration.
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1890 Cent. Dict. Prosection, the act or process of prosecting; dissection practised by a prosector.
1959 P. O'Brian Unknown Shore iii. 83 We could fasten the screen, by sewing the flaps as though it were a Gemelli's prosection.
1986 Med. Educ. 20 23 Fibre optics have been introduced to illustrate anatomical features in prosections or museum specimens as a means of overcoming the drawbacks of a two dimensional illustration.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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