Plural or third-person singular present form of 'dsect'; to cut apart or analyze in detail.
From the verb 'dsect' (variant of dissect) plus the regular '-s' suffix for third-person singular or plural verbs in English.
In scientific English, the verb 'dissect' was once spelled multiple ways depending on the writer's whim or regional tradition, and these variant spellings persist in historical documents, making old scientific texts surprisingly difficult to search in databases.
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