Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Dissection \Dis*sec"tion\, n. [Cf. F. dissection.]
   1. The act of dissecting an animal or plant; as, dissection
      of the human body was held sacrilege till the time of
      Francis I.

   2. Fig.: The act of separating or dividing for the purpose of
      critical examination.

   3. Anything dissected; especially, some part, or the whole,
      of an animal or plant dissected so as to exhibit the
      structure; an anatomical so prepared.

   {Dissection wound}, a poisoned wound incurred during the
      dissection of a dead body.