Translation of dissect in Spanish:

dissect

disecar, v.
Spanish
Latin American Spanish

Pronunciation /dɪˈsɛkt//dəˈsɛkt//dʌɪˈsɛkt//daɪˈsɛkt/

transitive verb

1
(cut up)
(body/animal) disecar
(animal/body) diseccionar
(body/animal) hacer la disección de
- We were told the story of a student whose grandfather, himself a medical doctor, had specifically asked her to dissect his body after death.
- The victim's body was dissected at the scene, causing shock and public mourning.
- This is exciting, because it means that we can dissect the chimpanzee species and ask, where are the ecological influences and what effects are they having?
- I wondered about the ethics of dissecting a donated body for general interest rather than specialist research.
- I studied the nude, and at the Medical Institute we were made to dissect corpses.
- In order to paint the human form better, he studied anatomy, dissecting many cadavers at a time when this was unusual, and drawing them in painstaking detail.
- When she died in 1815, her corpse was dissected by a French surgeon and parts of it, including the brain and genitalia, preserved in bottles.
- Galen was also interested in human anatomy but there is no evidence that he dissected human bodies - though rumours persisted that he did.
- Not even the first time she dissected a human body?
- In Scotland and in England royal assent was required in order to dissect the bodies of hanged felons.
- After she died, her body was dissected and her brain and genitals preserved, with casts of her body and her skeleton.
- Come 9pm it is hard to avoid a body being dissected or a corpse in a state of decomposition.
- The animal was eventually sacrificed for research purposes - when the scientists dissected the body, which by this time was very weak and thin, they found that the creature's digestive system had completely disappeared.
- When as a medical student you dissected a cadaver, were there things said and done that left you deeply worried about the respect that you might be shown when you are dead?
- From each plant one randomly chosen, fresh flower was dissected under a binocular microscope to separate the corolla, androecium and gynoecium.
- Trees were dissected into leaves, bark and wood of various trunk sections; lateral roots; and bark and wood of main root sections.
- For Sisyranthus trichostomus, the corona is not visible without dissecting the flower.
- Guidelines from the Royal College of Pathologists allow mortuary technicians to dissect bodies and remove organs in the absence of the pathologist.
- At the time, the knowledge of anatomy was developing rapidly but anatomists were only legally allowed to dissect the corpses of executed criminals.
- The move was suggested by Islamic leaders whose religion disapproves of bodies being dissected by pathologists attempting to find the cause of death.
2
(analyze)
(book/theory) examinar minuciosamente
(theory/book) analizar minuciosamente
(book/theory) diseccionar
- But the mere exertion of dissecting a newspaper was too much, and he threw up.
- The purpose of this article is not to dissect the Bush Doctrine.
- But this book dissects, analyses and hurls back those lies in gory detail.
- Exploiting an extraordinary cast of characters to the full, Coe dissects the body politic of Conservative Britain in the 1980s.
- People want to analyse and dissect the mind to an incredible level of detail, to understand personality, motivation, influences and intent.
- But since we have already started to dissect the list of nominees, we will take a peak at other outrages and oddities.
- I dissected the magazine from cover to cover, until the ink started to wear off the pages.
- He has been accused of murdering beggars to dissect their bodies.
- My brain was still processing what Anna had said; analysing it, and dissecting it into little pieces.
- Echevarria brilliantly dissects the ideas of these thinkers.
- Every so often, literary scholars seem to want to dissect an author's body of work, hoping to gain some insight into their personal life.
- Thirty-six competitions, the majority for public projects, their submitted images, models and texts, are dissected in detail.
- With unrelenting precision and distinct overtones of mockery, Tolstoy dissects the notion that men dictate events.
- So let's dissect the system in detail this week.
- Every last detail of tonight's contest is dissected in detail, assisted by the instant video replay on the bar's two TV screens.
- The article dissects a popular book that goes to great lengths to show how different Canadians and Americans are.
- It begins by looking at literary analysis where it is normal to dissect texts to understand the techniques they use to achieve aesthetic technique.
- We got around to discussing the game in detail, dissecting the various lines on each side.
- He'd had researchers, packaging experts, and McKinsey consultants dissecting the idea for a year.
- She'll analyse and dissect everything from 19th century Russian literature to salt and pepper shakers in pubs.