dissection

English

Alternative forms

• disection (misspelling)

Etymology

From Latin dissectiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈsɛkʃən/, /daɪˈsɛkʃən/
• Rhymes: -ɛkʃən

Noun

dissection (countable and uncountable, plural dissections)

1. the act of dissecting, or something dissected
2. a minute and detailed examination or analysis

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: ἀνατομή f (anatomḗ)

• Hungarian: boncolás (hu)
• Icelandic: líkskurður m
• Ido: disseko (io), dissekado
• Italian: dissezione (it) f
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• Japanese: 解剖 (ja) (かいぼう, kaibō)
• Korean: 해부 (ko) (haebu) (解剖 (ko))
• Latin: dissectio f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: disseksjon m

  Nynorsk: disseksjon m

• Portuguese: dissecação f, ^{(please verify)} dissecção f
• Romanian: disecție (ro) f
• Russian: диссе́кция (ru) f (dissékcija), рассече́ние (ru) n (rassečénije), разреза́ние (ru) n (razrezánije), препари́рование (ru) n (preparírovanije)
• Spanish: disección f
• Swedish: dissektion (sv) c
• Tagalog: panisnisan
• Welsh: dyrannu (cy) m

examination

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

Anagrams

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French

Etymology

From Latin dissectiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.sɛk.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

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Noun

dissection f (plural dissections)

1. dissection

Further reading

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