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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /dɪˈsɛkt/, /daɪˈsɛkt/
• (米国発音) IPA: /dɪˈsɛkt/, /daɪˈsɛkt/
• 韻: -ɛkt

動詞

dissect (third-person singular simple present dissects, present participle dissecting, simple past and past participle dissected)

1. (literal, transitive) To study an animal's anatomy by cutting it apart; to perform a necropsy or an autopsy.
   • 2020, Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half, Dialogue Books, page 130:

     She was the first person in her class to properly dissect the sheep heart.

2. (literal, transitive) To study a plant's or other organism's anatomy similarly.
3. (figurative, transitive) To analyze an idea in detail by delineating between its parts.
4. (figurative, transitive, derogatory) To decontextualize an idea, especially through overanalysis by delineating between its parts too strongly based on style, usually involving pedantry, at the expense of substance.

   Synonym: contextomize

   • 2000, Winona Lu-Ann Stevenson, Decolonizing Tribal Histories‎, University of California, Berkeley:

     Academics tend to take Indigenous oral histories out of their contexts and dissect them according to Western disciplinary objectives and foci (see figure 1).

   • 2023 July 16, Edward D. Andrews, BIBLICAL EXEGESIS: Biblical Criticism on Trial, Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp, page 242:

     By focusing excessively on dissecting the text into 'forms' and exploring their supposed evolution, form criticism overlooks the larger literary and historical context within which these forms exist.

   • 2023, Csaba Pléh, Laying the Foundations of Independent Psychology: The Formation of Modern Psychology, Taylor & Francis, page 369:

     There should be a more holistic approach both to behavior and to inner experience. Köhler (1929), in the first edition of his Gestalt psychology book, made a similar parallel. Both classical psychology and behaviorism decontextualize, and in this way, both have an unnatural tendency to dissect human mental life into meaningless atoms.

5. (literal, transitive, anatomy, surgery) To separate muscles, organs, etc. without cutting into them or disrupting their architecture.

   Now dissect the triceps away from its attachment on the humerus.

6. (literal, transitive, pathology) Of an infection or foreign material, following the fascia separating muscles or other organs.

派生語

関連する語

• dissection

Further reading

• “dissect”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “dissect”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “dissect”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• cestids