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dissection

noun as in cutting up, particularly of a dead body

noun as in thorough analysis

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However, the corpses of poor women, including executed prisoners, were sometimes obtained by doctors for dissection and anatomical study.

There’s a comprehensive look at loneliness in America—and an equally compelling dissection into why we sweat.

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Kentaro Miura, author and creator of the influential manga “Berserk,” died on May 6 due to acute aortic dissection, according to an official statement from publisher Young Animal Comics.

I mentally treated the process of tidying up after each lab as “tucking in” my donor as we cleaned the dissection table, sprayed his body with preservatives, and covered his body with protective blankets.

The difference was that in Britain doctors were accused of using cholera as a ruse to perform dissections.

Why the fascination, dissection, and constant conversation anytime Beyoncé or any female celebrity changes her hair?

I would go to dissection classes, cut up a human cadaver, and then go home and write about what I had learned and felt.

[Laughs] I was guy who was always looking in things in jars and blood on dissection tables.

It premiered on a fall TV slate that was overly primed for think pieces and dissection.

Go read John Avlon's excellent dissection of partisan journalism.

He went at his job with a handy adroitness which was almost scientific, it was so much like surgery, like dissection.

The attendance on the two courses of dissection could be evaded, and this was frequently done.

It was somewhat handicapped by the absence of human dissection.

There was a Papal bull, for instance, said to forbid dissection.

But the System is no substitute for dissection and experiment.

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On this page you'll find 41 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dissection, such as: postmortem, anatomy, autopsy, dismemberment, examination, and necropsy.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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