dissect

verb

1. 1

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

2. 2

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

3. 3

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

4. 4

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

5. 5

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