Verb

(en verb)

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.

Now dissect the triceps away from its attachment on the humerus.

(pathology) Of an infection or foreign material, following the fascia separating muscles or other organs.

Verb

(explor)

(obsolete) To seek for something or after someone.

To examine or investigate something systematically.

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To travel somewhere in search of discovery.

(medicine) To examine diagnostically.

To (seek) experience first hand.

To be engaged exploring in any of the above senses.

To wander without any particular aim or purpose.

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They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored' wherever they were permitted to ' explore , paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.