dissection > define

noun

• Cutting so as to separate into pieces.
• A minute and critical analysis.
• Detailed critical analysis or examination one part at a time (as of a literary work. ).

• (n.) Anything dissected; especially, some part or the whole, of an animal or plant dissected so as to exhibit the structure; an anatomical so prepared.
• (n.) Fig.: The act of separating or dividing for the purpose of critical examination.
• (n.) The act of dissecting an animal or plant; as, dissection of the human body was held sacrilege till the time of Francis I.