0 the action of cutting something open, especially a dead body or plant, in order to study its structure:
1 the process of examining or considering something in detail, or a piece of work that is the result of doing this:
The novel is really a dissection of nationalism.
Hearts were removed after perfusion with physiological saline, and transferred to the same solution for dissection.
A dissection of the mechanisms generating and stabilising polarity in mouse 8- and 16-cell blastomeres: the role of cytoskeletal elements./.
Retinal slices were prepared in a dark room under a dissection microscope equipped with an infrared illumination and a monitor.
A total of 11 fish out of 180, died between infection and dissection and were excluded from the analysis.
Three hundred (38%) patients underwent an axillary dissection ultimately.
At the end of the experiment, the viability of ungerminated seeds was estimated by dissection.
When the two species oviposited at approximately the same time, irrespective of the sequence, daily dissections revealed that embryogenesis proceeded regularly for both parasitoids.
Shortly after collection and following dissection from the oocyte, the cumulus clump appeared as an aggregate of thousands of cells.
