Dissect

//dɪˈsɛkt//

"Dissect" in a Sentence (12 examples)

Teachers dissect frogs to teach students their anatomy.

Mrs. Jackson, can we not dissect rabbits this year?

French students do not dissect frogs. They eat them!

If you want to know a person you like better, you have to confine them and dissect them.

Did you dissect frogs?

According to this doctor-in-training, who plans to specialize in psychiatry, medical students often report dreams in which they dissect a cadaver that suddenly comes alive and has the dreamer’s own face.

This analysis experiment watched the players dissect the environment for extreme locations (higher mountains), obscuring things with objects such as trees, and surroundings in an experiment using movement in the game's virtual world How do 4 factors such as different objects, and such complex paths affect the desire to explore.

She was the first person in her class to properly dissect the sheep heart.

Academics tend to take Indigenous oral histories out of their contexts and dissect them according to Western disciplinary objectives and foci (see figure 1).

By focusing excessively on dissecting the text into 'forms' and exploring their supposed evolution, form criticism overlooks the larger literary and historical context within which these forms exist.

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There should be a more holistic approach both to behavior and to inner experience. Köhler (1929), in the first edition of his Gestalt psychology book, made a similar parallel. Both classical psychology and behaviorism decontextualize, and in this way, both have an unnatural tendency to dissect human mental life into meaningless atoms.

Now dissect the triceps away from its attachment on the humerus.

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