anatomize

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It had been donated decades ago by a family with close connections to the surgeon who anatomised Corder's body.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2025

It stipulated that anyone without family who died in a public institution and who did not express reservation about being anatomised, could be transferred post-mortem to the university medical school for dissection.

From The Guardian • Jul. 4, 2020

Other Lives But Mine, another bestseller, not only described their harrowing escape, but also grimly anatomised the death from cancer of his girlfriend's sister.

From The Guardian • Sep. 21, 2014

Witty, tender and humane, Gardam's Old Filth and The Man in the Wooden Hat brilliantly anatomised the long marriage of characters forged in England's colonial past.

From The Guardian • Jan. 4, 2013

Now that I have anatomised his thoughts, I'll read a lecture on them that shall save Many men's lives, and to the kingdom minister Most wholesome surgery.

From The Noble Spanish Soldier by Dekker, Thomas