dissection
Surgical specimen examination
Dissection is the act of cutting something apart to examine its structure.
In biology, students dissect frogs or cadavers to study anatomy.
The word extends to any methodical analysis: a dissection of the company's financial problems, Her dissection of his argument was merciless.
The literal cutting apart becomes figurative taking apart.
Body for dissection
- scalpelPrecise surgical knife
- organBody's working component
- tissueDisposable soft paper
- specimenIndividual for examination
autopsy · formalin · histology · morphology · embalming · corpse · anatomist · preservation
Medical examination after death
- coronerPublic death investigator
- pathologyStudy of disease processes
- evidenceFacts supporting truth
- examinationMethodical assessment or review
inquest · toxicology · investigation · postmortem · forensics · body · homicide
Study of organisms
- laboratoryFacility for scientific investigation
- studentsThose receiving instruction
- frogTailless leaping amphibian
- specimenIndividual for examination
curriculum · practical · demonstration · scalpel · learning · observation · coursework · diagram
Precise surgical knife
- incisionControlled cut into tissue
- biopsyTissue sample for diagnosis
- excisionCutting out of tissue
- laparotomyAbdominal cavity access cut
thoracotomy · craniotomy · retractor · clamps · sterile · suturing · hemostasis · cauterization
Detailed evaluative analysis
- deconstructionAnalysis exposing self-contradiction
- examinationMethodical assessment or review
- scrutinyClose, careful examination
- breakdownFailure or decomposition
interpretation · parsing · unpacking · argument · text · logic · reasoning · methodology
Showing extreme attention to detail
- carefulExercising caution and attention
- methodicalOrganized and deliberate
- systematicFollowing ordered procedures
- detailedFull of specifics
exacting · thorough · painstaking · fine · delicate · step-by-step · layer-by-layer · precise
cadaver
Body for dissection
specimen · autopsy · formalin · histology · morphology · embalming · corpse · anatomist · preservation · necropsy
autopsy
Medical examination after death
examination · inquest · toxicology · investigation · postmortem · forensics · body · homicide
biology
Study of organisms
- laboratoryFacility for scientific investigation
- studentsThose receiving instruction
- frogTailless leaping amphibian
specimen · curriculum · practical · demonstration · scalpel · learning · observation · coursework · diagram · hands-on
scalpel
Precise surgical knife
laparotomy · thoracotomy · craniotomy · retractor · clamps · sterile · suturing · hemostasis · cauterization · ligature
critique
Detailed evaluative analysis
- deconstructionAnalysis exposing self-contradiction
- examinationMethodical assessment or review
- scrutinyClose, careful examination
breakdown · interpretation · parsing · unpacking · argument · text · logic · reasoning · methodology · literary
meticulous
Showing extreme attention to detail
- carefulExercising caution and attention
- methodicalOrganized and deliberate
- systematicFollowing ordered procedures
detailed · exacting · thorough · painstaking · fine · delicate · step-by-step · layer-by-layer · precise · scrupulous
- surgerysurgery, surgeon, surgeons, operation, incision
- lab suppliesbeakers, beaker, test tubes, test tube, pipettes
- ancient surgeryamputation, trepanation, cauterization, bloodletting, cautery
- surgical trainingsurgical residency, simulation training, cadaver lab, suturing, knot tying
- medicinedoctor, doctors, hospital, medicine, surgery
- schoolworkhomework, assignment, assignments, reading, essays
dissectionjoining
Linking into one
assembly · synthesis · connection · sewing · fusion
dissectionconstruction
Process of building something
assembly · creation · aggregation · agglomeration · conglomeration
dissectionpreservation
Maintaining something's condition
conservation · imaging · scanning · embalming · taxidermy
- frog dissectionClassroom amphibian surgery
- dissection table
- dissecting table
- dissection labSpace for examining organisms
- dissection kitInstruments for anatomical examination
- dissecting microscopeLow-magnification binocular viewer