Dissect vs Detect - What's the difference?
dissect | detect |
To study an animal's anatomy by cutting it apart; to perform a necropsy or an autopsy.
To study a plant or other organism's anatomy similarly.
To analyze an idea in detail by separating it into its parts.
(transitive, anatomy, surgery) To separate muscles, organs, and so on without cutting into them or disrupting their architecture.
(pathology) Of an infection or foreign material, following the fascia separating muscles or other organs.
As verbs the difference between dissect and detect
is that dissect is to study an animal's anatomy by cutting it apart; to perform a necropsy or an autopsy while detect is to discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing.As an adjective detect is
(obsolete) detected.dissect
English
Verb
(en verb)- Now dissect the triceps away from its attachment on the humerus.