dissect

Meaning

To study an animal's anatomy by cutting it apart; to perform a necropsy or an autopsy.
To study a plant or other organism's anatomy similarly.
To analyze an idea in detail by separating it into its parts.
To separate muscles, organs, and so on without cutting into them or disrupting their architecture.
Of an infection or foreign material, following the fascia separating muscles or other organs.

cut open

operate anatomize

pass around

screen off

rip open

analyse analyze

divide up cut up

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɪˈsɛkt/

Borrowed from Latin dissectus past participle of dissecare (“to cut asunder, cut up”), from dis- (“asunder”) + secare (“to cut”); see section.

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