DISSECTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dissected mean? 

• DISSECTED (adjective)
  The adjective DISSECTED has 1 sense:

1. having one or more indentations reaching nearly to the midrib

  Familiarity information: DISSECTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISSECTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having one or more indentations reaching nearly to the midrib

Synonyms:

cleft; dissected

Similar:

compound (composed of more than one part)

 Context examples 

A surgical procedure in which the axillary lymph node group is dissected and removed without prior removal and examination of the sentinel lymph node.

(Axillary Lymph Node Dissection without Prior Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy, NCI Thesaurus)

After review of the reference slide by a pathologist, tissues are robotically dissected in large groups.

(Laser Cryo Enrichment, NCI Thesaurus)

At that time, your ideas will less likely be challenged and dissected as they will be earlier in the month.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

A laboratory method in which the tissue from a histology slide is dissected under a microscope to procure specific cells or cell populations.

(Microdissection, NCI Thesaurus)

Microscopically, the adipose tissue contains large and pleomorphic lipoblasts, and is dissected by fibrous septa containing spindle cells.

(Atypical Lipoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Kaplan says the ability to study traumatic injury in a tissue model offers advantages over animal studies, in which measurements are delayed while the brain is being dissected and prepared for experiments.

(Bioengineers create functional 3D brain-like tissue, NIH)

And no matter how much he dissected beauty in search of the principles that underlie beauty and make beauty possible, he was aware, always, of the innermost mystery of beauty to which he did not penetrate and to which no man had ever penetrated.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A global research team that includes Glenn Orton of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has spectroscopically dissected the infrared light from Uranus captured by the 26.25-foot (8-meter) Gemini North telescope on Hawaii's Mauna Kea.

(What Uranus Cloud Tops Have in Common With Rotten Eggs, NASA)

He dissected beauty in his crowded little bedroom laboratory, where cooking smells alternated with the outer bedlam of the Silva tribe; and, having dissected and learned the anatomy of beauty, he was nearer being able to create beauty itself.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)