DISSECTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dissection mean? 

• DISSECTION (noun)
  The noun DISSECTION has 3 senses:

1. cutting so as to separate into pieces

2. a minute and critical analysis

3. detailed critical analysis or examination one part at a time (as of a literary work)

  Familiarity information: DISSECTION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISSECTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cutting so as to separate into pieces

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("dissection" is a kind of...):

cut; cutting (the act of cutting something into parts)

Derivation:

dissect (cut open or cut apart)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A minute and critical analysis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("dissection" is a kind of...):

analysis; analytic thinking (the abstract separation of a whole into its constituent parts in order to study the parts and their relations)

Derivation:

dissect (make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Detailed critical analysis or examination one part at a time (as of a literary work)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("dissection" is a kind of...):

analysis (an investigation of the component parts of a whole and their relations in making up the whole)

Derivation:

dissect (make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features)

 Context examples 

A laboratory procedure where manual dissection of a frozen or fixed biospecimen block is performed to isolate a specific tissue type or cell population of interest.

(Macrodissection, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by vascular abnormalities including aortic and arterial aneurysms, aortic dissection, and tortuosity of the arteries.

(Loeys-Dietz Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by tall stature, elongated extremities, mitral valve prolapse, aortic dilatation, aortic dissection, and subluxation of the lens.

(Marfan Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

A health-related instrument to identify the factors that affect quality of life related to shoulder dysfunction following neck dissection for head and neck cancers.

(Neck Dissection Impairment Index, NCI Thesaurus)

Patent blue V dye is used in sentinel lymph node (SLN) technique to guide nodal dissection or other imaging procedures.

(Patent Blue V Dye, NCI Thesaurus)

A technology that allows for high-throughput laser dissection of frozen specimens.

(Laser Cryo Enrichment, NCI Thesaurus)

A type of laparoscopic surgery where the surgeon uses both a laparoscope and his or her hand to help with dissection, retraction, and removal of tissue through a hand port incision.

(Hand Assisted Laparoscopy, NCI Thesaurus)

A dissection that extends through the full thickness of the coronary arterial wall.

(Coronary Artery Perforation, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)

Also called axillary lymph node dissection.

(Axillary dissection, NCI Dictionary)

It may lead to aortic dissection.

(Cystic Medial Necrosis, NCI Thesaurus)