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Things were different in Great Britain and her colonies, where dissections left people squeamish.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 5, 2026

Settle in for some amusing dissections of popular docuseries like “Making a Murderer” and “The Jinx,” as well as the simultaneously moralizing and exploitative “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

Ben's family is now trying to raise awareness of aortic dissections and underlying conditions by working with Cardiac Risk in the Young.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2024

They found nerve branches in all the dissections from the third and fourth cervical nerves to BAT.

From Science Daily • Oct. 4, 2023

Tyson carried out many other famous dissections, including a rattlesnake and an ostrich.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin