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DISSECTION (from Lat. dissecare, to c...

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 318 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DISSECTION (from
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Lat. dissecare, to cut apart)
, the separation into parts by cutting, particularly the cutting of an animal or plant into parts for the purpose of examination or display of its structure .

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