Plural of dissection; the acts of cutting apart organisms or structures for study, or detailed analyses of complex topics.
Plural of dissection (from Latin dissecare). The word has both literal anatomical meaning and figurative meaning (as in 'a dissection of the argument').
Dissections are fundamental to how we understand biology, but they also appear everywhere in literary criticism, historical analysis, and argument—whenever we take something complex and break it into understandable pieces.
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