Dissect vs Dismember - What's the difference?
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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.
To remove the limbs of.
To cut or otherwise divide something into pieces.
In transitive terms the difference between dissect and dismember
is that dissect is to analyze an idea in detail by separating it into its parts while dismember is to cut or otherwise divide something into pieces.dissect
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Verb
(en verb)- Now dissect the triceps away from its attachment on the humerus.
Derived terms
* dissectionExternal links
* * *dismember
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Alternative forms
* dismembre (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- Death by drawing and quartering usually dismembered the condemned person.
- The killer methodically dismembered the bodies of his victims.
- The American Civil War nearly dismembered the Union.
