dissection

Why the fascination, dissection, and constant conversation anytime Beyoncé or any female celebrity changes her hair?
The Outrage Over Beyonce’s Bettie Page Bangs: Why the Media Must Stop Objectifying Women|Phoebe Robinson|October 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I would go to dissection classes, cut up a human cadaver, and then go home and write about what I had learned and felt.
Doctors Can Write More Than Prescriptions: The Best Books by Doctors|Gabriel Weston|August 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
[Laughs] I was guy who was always looking in things in jars and blood on dissection tables.
Vampires without Glitter or Girl Problems: Inside Guillermo del Toro’s ‘The Strain’|Andrew Romano|July 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It premiered on a fall TV slate that was overly primed for think pieces and dissection.
Why Whitney Cummings’ Dick Jokes Are Important|Kevin Fallon|June 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST

His most “enjoyable” book, Front Row, was a dissection of Vogue high priestess Anna Wintour.
Celebrity Hit Man|Sandra McElwaine|August 7, 2009|DAILY BEAST
On dissection, the third eye will be found lying immediately beneath the skin; it has a lens, retina, and optic nerve.
The Dawn of Reason|James Weir
The scalpel, during the dissection of the muscles, met with granulations which blunted the edge of the instrument.
Animal Parasites and Messmates|P. J. Van Beneden
This process is adopted at Clamart for all the dead bodies destined for dissection.
History of Embalming|J. N. Gannal
Why has not some biographer, curious in the dissection of human vanity, written the real life of Doddington?
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCLXXVI. February, 1847. Vol. LXI.|Various
I have found the caustic of little use in incised wounds, and should not employ it except in such wounds received in dissection.
An Essay on the Application of the Lunar Caustic in the Cure of Certain Wounds and Ulcers|John Higginbottom

Medical definitions for dissection

dissection

[ dĭ-sĕk′shən, dī- ]

The act or an instance of dissecting.

Something that has been dissected, such as a tissue specimen under study.