Traditionally, this is studied by medical students by dissection of a human cadaver. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
But name calling and quote dissection is not acceptable. From Wordnik.com. [White House launches counteroffensive over Drudge Report link] Reference
Though not interested in dissection and content to bring the curiosity to me, she was not at all satisfied that I opted to release it. From Wordnik.com. [Future herders and hunters of America | Radical Futures Project] Reference
"It turned out he had a carotid dissection, which is unusual.". From Wordnik.com. Reference
A dissection is a split in one or more layers of the artery wall. From Wordnik.com. [Find Me A Cure] Reference
Like someone getting their jaw torn off, or a person getting cleaved in half by a sword dissection by bisection?. From Wordnik.com. [Comic Break: Ferryman #5 (DC/Wildstorm)] Reference
Day after day, I am finding it harder and harder to snark out a 1,000-word dissection of today's political lunacy. From Wordnik.com. [Scott Thill: I Am Taking Crazy Pills, March Edition] Reference
The dissection is the shearing away of an inner wall of the aorta, most likely caused by an aneurysm or dilation of this section. From Wordnik.com. [With Love and Laughter, John Ritter] Reference
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Ritter died at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in September 2003 of an aortic dissection, which is a tear in the aorta. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 14, 2008] Reference
Rohter assures that he "could subject each of their other wild and erroneous claims to the same kind of dissection for you.". From Wordnik.com. [Peter Hart: NYT's Larry Rohter Responds on His South of the Border Slam] Reference
On the right of this seated character is a table which serves as a "dissection" area. From Wordnik.com. [Pioneers of Alienation and 50s Sci-Fi at Thing Street Asylum] Reference
Joining Schuman for this "dissection" were all the performers and Virgil Thomson, music critic of the. From Wordnik.com. [NewMusicBox] Reference
They enjoy pulling things to pieces -- a kind of dissection -- or screwing the handle off a brush and screwing it on again. From Wordnik.com. [The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told] Reference
But it's not all dissection and self-evisceration. From Wordnik.com. [Biographies Abounding] Reference
His body was given over to the surgeons for dissection. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference
The assignment was to write a lab report on the dissection of a frog. From Wordnik.com. [From T.S. Eliot's Copybook] Reference
As he continued his dissection, I found myself leaving the anatomy lab behind. From Wordnik.com. [The Body of a Cow] Reference
I shall in this place, introduce a few observations on wounds received during dissection. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on the Application of the Lunar Caustic in the Cure of Certain Wounds and Ulcers] Reference
We shared responsibility for the dissection, initially of an earthworm and later, of a bullfrog. From Wordnik.com. [LIGHT FINGERS] Reference
So it happened that his electrical machine stood near some frogs 'legs, prepared for dissection. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
Morgan Stanley could lose a truckload of money and faces courtroom dissection of its club-by culture. From Wordnik.com. [Financial Exposure] Reference
What a precise, poetic dissection of a life this is; how brave she was, and how wise, to undertake it. From Wordnik.com. [Book Review Roundup] Reference
This method leaves them fully extended and firm, ready for dissection or for preservation for display. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
An arterial dissection is different from a loosened plaque and requires a different treatment approach. From Wordnik.com. [Can a Massage Cause Stroke?] Reference
Dr. Simpson attended the dissection of two of Dr. Sidey's cases, and freely handled the diseased parts. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
Imagine a room full of pony corpses hanging by chains and hooks from the ceiling in various stages of dissection. From Wordnik.com. [The Body of a Cow] Reference
In choosing to launch an abrasive front, Sonnen has been unrelenting in both his dissection of Silva and his own intent. From Wordnik.com. [Elliot Worsell: The Method in Chael Sonnen's Madness] Reference
I have found the caustic of little use in incised wounds, and should not employ it except in such wounds received in dissection. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on the Application of the Lunar Caustic in the Cure of Certain Wounds and Ulcers] Reference
Upon dissection we learned that every detail of alien physiognomy had already been imagined by scientists, artists, writers, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 1/cats] Reference
So that in the dissection of the embryo, as it were, two aortas, or two roots of the great artery, appear springing from the heart. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
More surprising still, instead of sulking over the curtailment of the dear privilege of self-dissection, Joel was plainly interested. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
But Kerry may consider them less alarming than Peter Beinhart's dissection, in The New Republic, of his recent rhetorical somersaults. From Wordnik.com. [After Powell, Before War] Reference
The other accidents were produced by dissection, or some other mode of contact with bodies of patients who had died of various affections. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
What we see in connection with dissection and surgery and medicine was repeated at a later date with inoculation, vaccination, and anæsthetics. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
His witty dissection of Manhattan marriage among the charmingly alienated is dated only superficially; the perils of commitment are still with us. From Wordnik.com. [Sondheim's Marriage-Go-Round] Reference
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