Dissection

//dɪˈsɛkʃən//

"Dissection" in a Sentence (8 examples)

Performing the dissection will give you a better understanding of the internal anatomy.

More than 200 medical students watched the dissection.

A Danish zoo killed a baby giraffe and invited the public to watch the dissection.

"Where's Tom?" "On a dissection table."

Tom suffered an aortic dissection and passed away.

They argued with him that it would be quite impossible for him to stand unanaesthetized the elaborate cutting and dissection necessary to complete an operation of this kind in a most important part of the body, where large nerves and arteries would have to be cut through and where the slightest disturbance on the part of the patient might easily lead to serious or even fatal results.

neck dissection

lymph node dissection

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