dissection

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Wikipedia

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dissectiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈsɛkʃən/, /daɪˈsɛkʃən/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɛkʃən

Noun

dissection (countable and uncountable, plural dissections)

1. The act of dissecting.
2. Something dissected. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. (figurative) A minute and detailed examination or analysis.
4. (medicine) Surgical removal.

   neck dissection

   lymph node dissection

Derived terms

• antidissection
• cryodissection
• equidissection
• hydrodissection
• immunodissection
• macrodissection
• microdissection
• redissection
• stereodissection

Related terms

• dissect

Translations

the act of dissecting, of cutting a dead body apart

Armenian: հերձում (hy) (herjum) Bulgarian: дисе́кция (bg) f (disékcija) Catalan: dissecció f Chinese: Mandarin: 解剖 (zh) (jiěpōu) Czech: pitva (cs) f Danish: dissektion c Finnish: ruumiinavaus (fi) French: dissection (fr) f German: Präparation f, Dissektion f Greek: ανατομή (el) f (anatomí) Ancient: ἀνατομή f (anatomḗ) Hindi: व्यवच्छेदन (vyavacchedan), विच्छेदन (hi) (vicchedan), चीर-फाड़ (cīr-phāṛ) Hungarian: boncolás (hu) Icelandic: líkskurður m Ido: disseko (io), dissekado Italian: dissezione (it) f Japanese: 解剖 (ja) (かいぼう, kaibō) Korean: 해부(解剖) (ko) (haebu) Latin: dissectio f Norwegian: Bokmål: disseksjon m Nynorsk: disseksjon m Occitan: disseccion f Portuguese: dissecação (pt) f, (please verify) dissecção (pt) f Romanian: disecție (ro) f Russian: диссе́кция (ru) f (dissékcija), рассече́ние (ru) n (rassečénije), разреза́ние (ru) n (razrezánije), препари́рование (ru) n (preparírovanije) Slovak: pitva f Spanish: disección (es) f Swedish: dissektion (sv) c Tagalog: panisnisan Ukrainian: дисе́кція f (dysékcija), ро́зтин m (róztyn), розсі́чення n (rozsíčennja) Welsh: dyrannu (cy) m

examination

Bulgarian: анализ (bg) m (analiz) Finnish: analyysi (fi), ruodinta (fi) Russian: ана́лиз (ru) m (análiz), разбо́р (ru) m (razbór), изуче́ние (ru) n (izučénije), иссле́дование (ru) n (isslédovanije) Spanish: disección (es) f

Anagrams

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French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin dissectiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.sɛk.sjɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

Noun

dissection f (plural dissections)

1. dissection

Related terms

• disséquer

Further reading

• “dissection”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.