Dissect vs Transect - What's the difference?
dissect | transect |
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.
a path along which a researcher moves, counts and records his observations
In transitive terms the difference between dissect and transect
is that dissect is to analyze an idea in detail by separating it into its parts while transect is to divide something by cutting transversely.As a noun transect is
a path along which a researcher moves, counts and records his observations.dissect
English
Verb
(en verb)- Now dissect the triceps away from its attachment on the humerus.