dissect
动词 v.
英 /dɪˈsɛkt/|/daɪˈsɛkt/
美 /dɪˈsɛkt/|/daɪˈsɛkt/
英文释义
动词 v.
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To study an animal's anatomy by cutting it apart; to perform a necropsy or an autopsy.
— She was the first person in her class to properly dissect the sheep heart.
- To study a plant's or other organism's anatomy similarly.
- To analyze an idea in detail by delineating between its parts.
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To decontextualize an idea, especially through overanalysis by delineating between its parts too strongly based on style, usually involving pedantry, at the expense of substance.
— Academics tend to take Indigenous oral histories out of their contexts and dissect them according to Western disciplinary objectives and foci (see figure 1).
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To separate muscles, organs, etc. without cutting into them or disrupting their architecture.
— Now dissect the triceps away from its attachment on the humerus.
- Of an infection or foreign material, following the fascia separating muscles or other organs.
词汇关系
词源
Borrowed from Latin dissectus past participle of dissecare (“to cut asunder, cut up”), from dis- (“asunder”) + secare (“to cut”); see section.
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