dissections

Synonyms

autopsy dismemberment dissector

Examples

I actually wanted to be a doctor. But doing all those horrid rat dissections made me faint. I studied science till the 12th standard and later took up commerce. I was planning to do chartered accountancy, but fate had something else in store for me. Bipasha Basu

Also his contribution to mathematics should be noted; in 1658, he found the length of an arc of the cycloid using an exhaustion proof based on dissections to reduce the problem to summing segments of chords of a circle which are in geometric progression. Source: Internet

In his dissections of the heart, Vesalius became convinced that Galen's claims of a porous Interventricular septum were false. Source: Internet

It describes the body in the order followed in Mondino's dissections, starting with the abdomen, then the thorax, then the head and limbs. Source: Internet

He would be driven to seek forbidden knowledge, obtained in ways unacceptable to his culture, like the theft of human corpses and secret dissections in an upstairs room. Source: Internet

Known for her piquant novels, Deborah Levy now takes to non-fiction, with a "working autobiography" that comprises thoughtful dissections of life as a woman. Source: Internet