Meaning & use
dissection
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The action of cutting apart a body, plant, or organism to examine its internal structure, or a detailed analysis of something.
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Students performed a dissection of a frog in biology class.
The critic's dissection of the film's plot revealed several glaring inconsistencies.
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From Latin "dissecare," "to cut apart," the word is used literally in biology and medicine and figuratively for close critical analysis.
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