Vivisect vs Dissect - What's the difference?
vivisect | dissect |
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 vivisect and dissect
is that vivisect is to perform vivisection upon; to dissect alive while dissect is to study an animal's anatomy by cutting it apart; to perform a necropsy or an autopsy.dissect
English
Verb
(en verb)- Now dissect the triceps away from its attachment on the humerus.