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[ noun ] cutting so as to separate into pieces

Used in print

(Edward Austin Walton, "On Education for the Interior...)

It is like medical_schools in India where , in that fairy_land of religious inhibition , the dissection of dead_bodies is frowned_upon .

Instead they learn their dissection on the bulbs of plants .

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cut dissect

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[ noun ] a minute and critical analysis

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analysis analyze

3
[ noun ] detailed part-by-part critical analysis or examination as of a literary work

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analysis analyze

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