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Dissection   /daɪsˈɛkʃən/  /dˈaɪsɛkʃən/   Listen
Dissection

noun
1.
Cutting so as to separate into pieces.
2.
A minute and critical analysis.
3.
Detailed critical analysis or examination one part at a time (as of a literary work).





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"Dissection" Quotes from Famous Books



... is good, and this prognosis as to hydrophobia in man has remained unaltered till in our day when Pasteur published his startling revelation. The anatomical knowledge of the Talmudists was derived chiefly from dissection of the animals. As a very remarkable piece of practical anatomy for its very early date is the procuring of the skeleton from the body of a prostitute by the process of boiling, by Rabbi Ishmael, ...
— Old-Time Makers of Medicine • James J. Walsh
... house to learn dancing!" echoed he. "Folks would be for putting me into a lunatic asylum. If I do find an hour to myself any odd evening, I have to get to my dissection. I went shares the other day in a ...
— Verner's Pride • Mrs. Henry Wood
... purpose of arrangements or the use of the organs of an animal are, however, no less within the province of the painter than of the physiologist, and are indeed more likely to commend themselves to you through drawing than dissection. For as you dissect an animal you generally assume its form to be necessary and only examine how it is constructed; but in drawing the outer form itself attentively you are led necessarily to consider the mode of life for which it is disposed, and ...
— Lectures on Landscape - Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871 • John Ruskin
... [Footnote 31: The dissection of Rufinus, which Claudian performs with the savage coolness of an anatomist, (in Rufin. ii. 405-415,) is likewise specified by Zosimus and Jerom, ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 3 • Edward Gibbon
... mind! Can that too be dissected? We hear much nowadays of dissection of the human body; of organs which have been transplanted and which perform their functions in the body of another animal; of marvellous operations, in which tissues and viscera have been removed, repaired, and replaced—seeming ...
— The Problems of Psychical Research - Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal • Hereward Carrington


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