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The act of dissecting an animal or plant; as, dissection of the human body was held sacrilege till the time of Francis I.

Dissection of, or incision into, a gland or glands.

Of or relating to anatomy or dissection; as, the anatomic art; anatomical observations. Hume.

In an anatomical manner; by means of dissection.

One who is skilled in the art of anatomy, or dissection.

fferent parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dissection.

The dissection of a human body, especially of a male; androtomy. Coxe.

Dissection of the human body, as distinguished from zoötomy; anthropotomy. [R.]

Dissection of the blood vessels and lymphatics of the body. Dunglison.

Pertaining to anthropotomy, or the dissection of human bodies.

The anatomy or dissection of the human body; androtomy. Owen.

Dissection of aponeuroses.

That part of anatomy which treats of the dissection of the arteries.

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.