dissection

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dissectiōnem, perhaps via Middle French dissection. By surface analysis, dissect +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈsɛkʃən/, /daɪˈsɛkʃən/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɛkʃən

Noun

dissection (countable and uncountable, plural dissections)

1. The act of dissecting.
2. Something dissected. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. (figurative) A minute and detailed examination or analysis.
4. (medicine) Surgical removal.

   neck dissection

   lymph node dissection

Derived terms

• antidissection
• cryodissection
• equidissection
• hydrodissection
• immunodissection
• macrodissection
• microdissection
• redissection
• stereodissection

Related terms

• dissect

Translations

the act of dissecting, of cutting a dead body apart

• Armenian: հերձում (hy) (herjum)
• Bulgarian: дисе́кция (bg) f (disékcija)
• Catalan: dissecció f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 解剖 (zh) (jiěpōu)

• Czech: pitva (cs) f
• Danish: dissektion c
• Finnish: ruumiinavaus (fi)
• French: dissection (fr) f
• German: Präparation f, Dissektion f
• Greek: ανατομή (el) f (anatomí)

  Ancient Greek: ἀνατομή f (anatomḗ)

• Hindi: व्यवच्छेदन (vyavacchedan), विच्छेदन (hi) (vicchedan), चीर-फाड़ (cīr-phāṛ)
• Hungarian: boncolás (hu)
• Icelandic: líkskurður m
• Ido: disseko (io), dissekado
• Italian: dissezione (it) f
• Japanese: 解剖 (ja) (かいぼう, kaibō)
• Korean: 해부(解剖) (ko) (haebu)
• Latin: dissectio f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: disseksjon m

  Nynorsk: disseksjon m

• Occitan: disseccion f
• Portuguese: dissecação (pt) f, ^{(please verify)} dissecção (pt) f
• Romanian: disecție (ro) f
• Russian: диссе́кция (ru) f (dissékcija), рассече́ние (ru) n (rassečénije), разреза́ние (ru) n (razrezánije), препари́рование (ru) n (preparírovanije)
• Slovak: pitva f
• Spanish: disección (es) f
• Swedish: dissektion (sv) c
• Tagalog: panisnisan
• Ukrainian: дисе́кція f (dysékcija), ро́зтин m (róztyn), розсі́чення n (rozsíčennja)
• Welsh: dyrannu (cy) m

examination

• Bulgarian: анализ (bg) m (analiz)
• Finnish: analyysi (fi), ruodinta (fi)
• Russian: ана́лиз (ru) m (análiz), разбо́р (ru) m (razbór), изуче́ние (ru) n (izučénije), иссле́дование (ru) n (isslédovanije)
• Spanish: disección (es) f

Anagrams

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French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin dissectiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.sɛk.sjɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

Noun

dissection f (plural dissections)

1. dissection

Related terms

• disséquer

Further reading

• “dissection”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012