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Dissection is the careful cutting apart of a body or specimen to study its structure.
means The act of cutting something apart, piece by piece, to see exactly how it was put together.
from From Latin dissecare — dis- 'apart' plus secare 'to cut' (the same root that gives us 'section' and 'segment'). The Romans used it plainly, for cutting up anything; by the late 1500s English had borrowed it specifically for the anatomist's careful, bladed curiosity.
- etymology
- latin for cutting apart, literally
- renaissance art
- artists attended for anatomy lessons, not horror
- grey's anatomy
- named after an actual dissection textbook
- frogs beware
- still biology class's rite of passage