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dissection

noun as in cutting up, particularly of a dead body

noun as in thorough analysis

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Why the fascination, dissection, and constant conversation anytime Beyoncé or any female celebrity changes her hair?

I would go to dissection classes, cut up a human cadaver, and then go home and write about what I had learned and felt.

[Laughs] I was guy who was always looking in things in jars and blood on dissection tables.

It premiered on a fall TV slate that was overly primed for think pieces and dissection.

Go read John Avlon's excellent dissection of partisan journalism.

He went at his job with a handy adroitness which was almost scientific, it was so much like surgery, like dissection.

The attendance on the two courses of dissection could be evaded, and this was frequently done.

It was somewhat handicapped by the absence of human dissection.

There was a Papal bull, for instance, said to forbid dissection.

But the System is no substitute for dissection and experiment.

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On this page you'll find 41 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dissection, such as: postmortem, anatomy, autopsy, dismemberment, examination, and necropsy.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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