well-dissectedadj.

1708 J. Philips Cyder i. 22 Thy Specular Orb Apply to well-dissected Kernels; lo! Strange Forms arise, in each a little Plant Unfolds its Boughs.

1755 Lady Winchelsea in Poems by Eminent Ladies II. 295 Not skilful Lower thy source could find, Or through the well-dissected body trace The secret, the mysterious ways, By which thou dost surprize, and prey upon the mind.

1838 Sat. Mag. 25 Aug. 67/2 Nothing can form a more beautiful object than a well dissected leaf or seed-vessel.

1867 Chicago Med. Jrnl. 24 539 The specimen—which was a well-dissected arm—was as dry as leather, and without odor.

1901 Lancet 14 Dec. 1677/2 A complete and well-dissected specimen of Early Abortion.

1972 Amer. Heart Jrnl. 84 599/1 It will be easier to identify and control the end of the vessel in a well-dissected field than to start the dissection in the midst of massive bleeding from a vessel that is accidentally severed.

2011 P. Valenti Tendon Transfer 42 A well-dissected tendon measures about 7 cm in length.

1896 Nat. Geogr. Mag. 7 192 It is even more manifest here than in northwestern France that we have to do with an uplifted and well-dissected peneplain.

1922 W. N. Logan et al. Handbk. Indiana Geol. ii. 229 The angularity of the erosion forms is quite typical of a well dissected upland.

1972 Ann. Assoc. Amer. Geographers 62 674/2 Lowlands, well-dissected uplands, and mountains are all present.

2003 Quaternary Internat. 103 4/2 These rocks contain few resistant beds and tend to form a homogeneous, well-dissected landscape of moderate slopes.