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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dissectiōnem.
Pronunciation
Noun
dissection (countable and uncountable, plural dissections)
- the act of dissecting, or something dissected
- a minute and detailed examination or analysis
- (medicine) surgical removal
Related terms
Translations
the act of dissecting, of cutting a dead body apart
- Armenian: հերձում (hy) (herjum)
- Bulgarian: дисе́кция (bg) f (disékcija)
- Catalan: dissecció f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 解剖 (zh) (jiěpōu)
- Czech: pitva (cs) f
- Danish: dissektion c
- Finnish: ruumiinavaus (fi)
- French: dissection (fr) f
- German: Präparation f, Dissektion f
- Greek: ανατομή (el) f (anatomí)
- Ancient: ἀνατομή f (anatomḗ)
- Hindi: व्यवच्छेदन (vyavacchedan), विच्छेदन (hi) (vicchedan), चीर-फाड़ (cīr-phāṛ)
- Hungarian: boncolás (hu)
- Icelandic: líkskurður m
- Ido: disseko (io), dissekado
- Italian: dissezione (it) f
- Japanese: 解剖 (ja) (かいぼう, kaibō)
- Korean: 해부(解剖) (ko) (haebu)
- Latin: dissectio f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: disseksjon m
- Nynorsk: disseksjon m
- Occitan: disseccion f
- Portuguese: dissecação (pt) f, (please verify) dissecção (pt) f
- Romanian: disecție (ro) f
- Russian: диссе́кция (ru) f (dissékcija), рассече́ние (ru) n (rassečénije), разреза́ние (ru) n (razrezánije), препари́рование (ru) n (preparírovanije)
- Slovak: pitva f
- Spanish: disección f
- Swedish: dissektion (sv) c
- Tagalog: panisnisan
- Ukrainian: дисе́кція f (dysékcija), ро́зтин m (róztyn), розсі́чення n (rozsíčennja)
- Welsh: dyrannu (cy) m
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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dissectiōnem.
Pronunciation
Noun
dissection f (plural dissections)
- dissection
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