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• v  cut open or cut apart
• v  make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features
• s  having one or more incisions reaching nearly to the midrib

• And most startling of all, when technicians dissected its pectoral fins, they found the beginnings of a tetrapod hand, complete with a primitive version of a wrist and five .
• Its afterpart stands clear and showing its skin, like a dissected whale, but its forward part is enclosed in a big tank of water.
• As the world's leading romance writer, she has inspected, dissected, deconstructed, explored, explained and extolled the passions of the human heart since 1981.

• dissect
• analyze
• analyse
• break down
• take apart
• cleft

• synthesize

News & Articles

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• Dissection camp is a cut above the rest
  CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Peyton Hughes had never dissected a specimen in his life. That changed for the rising sixth-grader at Ashland Elementary in Ashland, Ky., when he picked up a scalpel Monday and sliced open an earthworm and starfish. &qu...
  June 12, 2013 - Charleston Daily Mail
• Huge shark caught by angler off CA wasn't pregnant
  Scientists who dissected the huge mako shark caught off the Southern California coast have found that the female shark had gallons of sea water and a seal or sea lion in her stomach.
  June 10, 2013 - Channel 8 San Diego
• Tim Tebow Signs With New England Patriots
  Tim Tebow Signs With New England Patriotsmight be the most unlikely sentence you thought you'd read today. That's right. The much-maligned, dissected, yelled about, tweeted about, most hated and loved QB in the NFL is going from the New York Jets to the rival New England Patriots, according to ESPN's Ed Werder. It's a stunning turn of events for a guy considered not good enough for even the ...
  June 10, 2013 - Vibe Magazine

Quotes

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• Seymour Benzer in Washington Post
  The impact is opening up the whole idea that behavior can be dissected by manipulation, studying the genes,Benzer told The Associated Press last year. "It's an entire cycle. Every step of the way is under genetic control."
• Tiki Barber in USA Today
  It was strange - they were in our huddle a little bit,said running back Tiki Barber, who was held to a season-low 41 yards. "They kind of had us dissected and figured out and we couldn't get anything going consistently."
• Randy Wittman in Seattle Post Intelligencer
  I'm upset at the discrepancies of the calls,T'Wolves head coach Randy Wittman said. "We just dissected the last play and they gave them the ball and I don't know how."