Usually means: Cut apart for detailed analysis.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word dissect:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. dissect: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. dissect: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dissect: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dissect: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dissect: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dissect, dissect: Wordnik
  7. dissect: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dissect: Wiktionary
  9. dissect: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dissect: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dissect: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. dissect: Dictionary.com
  13. dissect: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Dissect: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Dissect: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. dissect: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. dissect: Rhymezone
  18. Dissect: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. dissect: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. dissect: Free Dictionary
  21. dissect: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. dissect: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dissect: Legal dictionary

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  1. dissect: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Dissect: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Dissect: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  5. dissect: Medical dictionary
  6. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  7. Dissect: Drug Medical Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dissect: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See dissected as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To study an animal's anatomy by cutting it apart; to perform a necropsy or an autopsy.
verb:  (transitive) To study a plant's or other organism's anatomy similarly.
verb:  (transitive) To analyze an idea in detail by separating it into its parts.
verb:  (transitive, anatomy, surgery) To separate muscles, organs, etc. without cutting into them or disrupting their architecture.
verb:  (transitive, pathology) Of an infection or foreign material, following the fascia separating muscles or other organs.

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