Dissect vs. Resect — What's the Difference?

To cut apart or separate (tissue), especially for anatomical study.

To perform a resection on.

To examine, analyze, or criticize in minute detail

To remove (some part of an organ or structure) by surgical means.

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

To cut or pare off; to remove by cutting.

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

Surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ

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

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

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

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.

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

Cut open or cut apart;

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