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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.

Capable of being dissected, or separated by dissection. Paley.

Of or pertaining to, or received during, a dissection; as, a dissecting wound.

The science of the dissection of insects.

The anatomy or dissection of reptiles.

The dissection of organic tissues.

The anatomy or dissection of fishes. [R.]

The dissection, or that part of anatomy which treats of the dissection, of muscles.

The dissection of dead bodies; also, excision of necrosed bone. --Nec`ro*tom"ic (#), a. --Nec*rot"o*mist (#), n.

The dissection, or anatomy, of the nervous system.

The anatomy or dissection of birds.

The dissection or anatomy of bones; osteology.

The dissection of plants; vegetable anatomy.

One who prepares beforehand, as subjects for dissection, specimens for preservation in collections, etc. Agassiz.

One who makes dissections for anatomical illustration; usually, the assistant of a professional anatomist.

stion; problematical; doubtful; suspicious. It is questionable whether Galen ever saw the dissection of a human body.T. Baker.

One who steals bodies from the grave, as for dissection. [Slang]