dissectionnoun [ C or U ]
uk/daɪˈsek.ʃən//daɪˈsek.ʃən/specialized medical, biology the action of cutting something open, especially a dead body or plant, in order to study its structure:
Traditional surgical approaches to spinal pain involve open dissection of soft tissue and bone.
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Cutting off and disconnecting
- amputate
- amputee
- chop
- chop sth off
- crop
- cut
- cut sb off
- disconnect
- dismember
- dock
- lop sth off
- saw
- saw sth off
- sever
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Medical treatment: surgery
the process of examining or considering something in detail, or a piece of work that is the result of doing this:
The novel is really a dissection of nationalism.
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Analysing and evaluating
- analyse
- analyser
- analyst
- analytical
- analyze
- critical
- have the measure of sb/sth idiom
- inspect
- inspection
- interpretive
- investigate
- measure
- proof
- set great, little, etc. store by sth idiom
- sift
- sit
- sit in judgment on/over sb idiom
- size sth/sb up
- store
- survey
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