What is the meaning of Dissect?

To study an animal's anatomy by cutting it apart; to perform a necropsy or an autopsy.

To study a plant's or other organism's anatomy similarly.

To analyze an idea in detail by separating it into its parts.

To separate muscles, organs, etc. without cutting into them or disrupting their architecture.

Of an infection or foreign material, following the fascia separating muscles or other organs.

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