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A strong scalpel used in the dissection of joints.

Dissection of a dead body, for the purpose of ascertaining the cause, seat, or nature of a disease; a post-mortem examination.

(Law), the unauthorized removal of a dead body from the grave; usually for the purpose of dissection.

o as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection.

The practice of killing persons for the purpose of selling their bodies for dissection.

termes; to talk with an affectation of learning. The doctor here, When he discqurseth of dissection, Of vena cava and of vena porta, The meseræum and the mesentericum, What does he else but cant. B. Jonson That uncouth affected garb of speech, or canting hanguage, if I may so call it. Bp. Sanderson.…

Dissection or opening of the head.

The dissection of cartilages.

or shears) to cut the ribs and open the thoracic cavity, in post-mortem examinations and dissections. Knight.

To exhibit and explain (a dissection or other anatomical preparation).

The exhibition and explanation of a dissection or other anatomical preparation.

ew, as fraud is surely detected at last. Burke. Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect. Pope.

The act or art of dissecting the brain.

The science of the dissection of insects.

uame of several species of the genus Fumaria, annual herbs of the Old World, with finely dissected leaves and small flowers in dense racemes or spikes. F. officinalis is a common species, and was formerly used as an antiscorbutic. Climbing fumitory (Bot.), the Alleghany vine (Adlumia cirrhosa); a biennial climbing pla…

One who dissects, or studies the anatomy of, reptiles.

The anatomy or dissection of reptiles.

The dissection of organic tissues.

The anatomy or dissection of fishes. [R.]

bouts of; as, he lost his companion in the crowd. Like following life thro' creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect. Pope .