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• n  cutting so as to separate into pieces
• n  a minute and critical analysis
• n  detailed critical analysis or examination one part at a time (as of a literary work)

• Perhaps De Palma and Stone had aspirations of Godfatherhood: an operatic overview of the nation's immigrant black princes, a meticulous dissection of the relationship between .
• He told reporters in Illinois earlier this week that he isn't aiming for the polished, soaring language that is his hallmark, but rather a more nuts and bolts dissection of the .
• The pain of aortic dissection is often mistaken for that of a heart attack.

News & Articles

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• British comic Russell Brand to perform at Sands
  British comic Russell Brand and his irreverent brand of humor will invade Bethlehem in September. The concert will take place Saturday, September 14 at the Sands Bethlehem Events Center. Brand's first ever stand-up tour, officially named "Messiah Complex,"  will be a dissection of various social and religious figures and the reality of their lives through comparisons of each other, according to ...
  June 10, 2013 - WFMZ Eastern Pennsylvania and Western New Jersey
• Conn. bill lets students skip animal dissections
  Conn. bill lets students skip animal dissections Students are required to obtain parental permission to be exempted from dissection activities, and they must complete an alternative assignment. Republican Sen. Toni Boucher of Wilton says she thinks it's time to allow computerized animation for anatomy lessons, since even doctors use those techniques "to learn how to and practice an operation on ...
  June 6, 2013 - San Francisco Chronicle
• McDonalds Of Zanesville - Lovin' The Communities We Serve
  Hands on learning is the focus of a summer camp being offered by the Muskingum Family Y. The STEAM camp stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math. It's a two week program that introduces students in sixth-eighth grade to dissection, physics and the rock cycle, among other things.
  June 5, 2013 - WHIZ News Zanesville

Quotes

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• JG Ballard in Independent
  Ballard wrote: "In many ways, my entire fiction is the dissection of a deep pathology that I had witnessed in Shanghai and later in the postwar world."
• Rahul Bose in Times of India
  Another excerpt from Rahul's letter says, "It is a disservice to university students to demand that they use such a cruel and archaic method when studies have shown that virtual dissection software provides students with an equivalent or even...
• Brad Pitt in USA Today
  I hesitate to even call this a Western,Brad Pitt says of his movie The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, in which he plays the country's most famous gunslinger. "This is a psychological dissection of people at this...