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nouncutting up, particularly of a dead body

nounthorough analysis

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However, the corpses of poor women, including executed prisoners, were sometimes obtained by doctors for dissection and anatomical study.

HOW MEDICINE SOUGHT TO CONTROL WOMEN’S BODIES WHILE IGNORING THEIR SYMPTOMSSUSAN OKIEJULY 2, 2021WASHINGTON POST

There’s a comprehensive look at loneliness in America—and an equally compelling dissection into why we sweat.

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Kentaro Miura, author and creator of the influential manga “Berserk,” died on May 6 due to acute aortic dissection, according to an official statement from publisher Young Animal Comics.

REMEMBERING KENTARO MIURA, LEGENDARY CREATOR OF ‘BERSERK,’ WHICH INSPIRED COUNTLESS FANTASY STORIESGENE PARKMAY 20, 2021WASHINGTON POST

I mentally treated the process of tidying up after each lab as “tucking in” my donor as we cleaned the dissection table, sprayed his body with preservatives, and covered his body with protective blankets.

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The difference was that in Britain doctors were accused of using cholera as a ruse to perform dissections.

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

OVERLANDJOHN WILLIAM DE FOREST

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

THE DIARY OF A RESURRECTIONIST, 1811-1812JAMES BLAKE BAILEY

It was somewhat handicapped by the absence of human dissection.

OLD-TIME MAKERS OF MEDICINEJAMES J. WALSH

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

OLD-TIME MAKERS OF MEDICINEJAMES J. WALSH

But the System is no substitute for dissection and experiment.