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dissection|dɪˈsɛkʃən|
[ad. L. dissectiōn-em, n. of action from dissecāre; used in med. or mod.L. Perhaps immed. a. F. dissection (Paré, 16th c.).]
†1. The action or process of cutting asunder or in pieces; division by cutting. Obs.
1611Cotgr., Dissection, a dissection; a cleauing in peeces. 1644Milton Areop. (Arb.) 70 There must be many schisms and many dissections made in the quarry and in the timber, ere the house of God can be built. 1669Gale Crt. Gentiles i. ii. ix. 141 As to the Dissection [after sacrifice], it was not made rashly, but with great Art. 1784Cowper Task vi. 420 The spaniel dying for some venial fault, Under dissection of the knotted scourge.
2. spec. The methodical cutting up of an animal or a plant, for the purpose of displaying its internal structure.
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. i. v. §12 (1873) 43 Thus have I described and opened, as by a kind of dissection, those peccant humours. 1615Crooke Body of Man i. ix, Living dissections (as we call them) are then put in vse when we would find out some action or vse of a part which by the dead carkasse cannot be discerned. 1671Grew Anat. Plants i. i. §28 (1682) 6 What Dissection cannot attain, yet an ocular inspection in hundreds of other seeds..will demonstrate. 1758Johnson Idler No. 17 ⁋8, I know not that by living dissections, any discovery has been made by which a single malady is more easily cured. 1850H. Martineau Hist. Peace iv. xiv. (1877) III. 134 Murders for the sake of selling bodies for dissection. 1881Huxley in Nature No. 615. 347 For hundreds of years..the dissection of human bodies was impeded, and anatomists were confined to the dissection of dead animals.
3. The action of separating anything into elementary or minute parts for the purpose of critical examination; a ‘taking to pieces’, a minute examination; detailed analysis or criticism.
1642Milton Apol. Smect. §4 Thus ends this Section, or rather dissection of himself, short ye will say both in breath and extent. 1654Whitlock Zootomia 405 In the particular Dissection of mens Actions. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 158 It is perhaps the best dissection of the human mind, that hath appeared in modern times. 1867Deutsch in Rem. (1874) 1 Dissections of dogma and legend and ceremony.
†4. Chemical analysis. Obs.
1605Timme Quersit. i. xiii. 63 Mercury is extracted out of euery thing, first of all in his dissection or seperation into a watery vapour. 1794S. Williams Vermont 90 By accurate dissection..it has been found that this ill scented fluid is entirely distinct from the urine.
5. Business. The analysis of invoices and accounts, in order that the various items may be entered to the account of the special departments to which they belong: see dissect v. 5.
6. concr. That which has been cut asunder or dissected, or is in a dissected condition; anything which is the result or produce of dissecting.
1581Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 48 All his [the Poet's] kindes are not onlie in their vnited formes, but in their seuered dissections fully commendable.
7. Physical Geogr. The breaking up by erosion of a flat surface such as a plateau or plain into hills, or flat uplands, and valleys.
1909in Cent. Dict. Suppl. 1937Wooldridge & Morgan Physical Basis Geogr. xiii. 177 If the active deepening of the valleys is continued after the stage of mature dissection, the ridge-crests will remain sharp. 1968R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 15/1 Deep canyon dissection is followed by secondary headward erosion of smaller tributaries.
8. attrib. and Comb.
1847W. Reeves Eccl. Antiq. 66 note, The Dissection-room panic caused many to resort to this place. 1889Huxley in Pall Mall G. 2 May, None of the ordinary symptoms of dissection poison supervened. |