Disect vs. Dissect

Disect

Misspelling of dissect.

Dissectverb

(transitive) To study an animal's anatomy by cutting it apart; to perform a necropsy or an autopsy.

Dissectverb

(transitive) To study a plant or other organism's anatomy similarly.

Dissectverb

(transitive) To analyze an idea in detail by separating it into its parts.

Dissectverb

To separate muscles, organs, and so on without cutting into them or disrupting their architecture.

Dissectverb

Of an infection or foreign material, following the fascia separating muscles or other organs.

Dissectverb

To divide into separate parts; to cut in pieces; to separate and expose the parts of, as an animal or a plant, for examination and to show their structure and relations; to anatomize.

Dissectverb

To analyze, for the purposes of science or criticism; to divide and examine minutely.

‘This paragraph . . . I have dissected for a sample.’;

Dissectverb

cut open or cut apart;

‘dissect the bodies for analysis’;

Dissectverb

make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features;

‘analyze a specimen’; ‘analyze a sentence’; ‘analyze a chemical compound’;