Dissect vs Slicing - What's the difference?
dissect | slicing |
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.
The action of the verb to slice .
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=April 3, author=The New York Times, title=Art in Review, work=New York Times
, passage=Working on a monumental scale the artist Gordon Matta-Clark, from whose work the gallery takes its name, similarly redefined architecture in the 1970s, using massive slicings and excisions to suggest, among other things, the instability of the concept of property and the ephemerality of what we call real estate. Mr. Balula delivers something like the same message in a nutshell. }}
As verbs the difference between dissect and slicing
is that dissect is to study an animal's anatomy by cutting it apart; to perform a necropsy or an autopsy while slicing is .As a noun slicing is
the action of the verb to slice .dissect
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Verb
(en verb)- Now dissect the triceps away from its attachment on the humerus.
Derived terms
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