Vocabulary Word
Word: dissection
Definition: analysis; cutting apart in order to examine
Definition: analysis; cutting apart in order to examine
Sentences Containing 'dissection'
One which I kept alive was certainly in this condition, the cause, as appeared on dissection, having been inflammation of the nictitating membrane.
Even poor Maritornes, with her deplorable morals, has a kind heart of her own and "some faint and distant resemblance to a Christian about her;" and as for Sancho, though on dissection we fail to find a lovable trait in him, unless it be a sort of dog-like affection for his master, who is there that in his heart does not love him?
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