Most of his work was done with the simple dissecting microscope--but it was the need which he found for higher powers that induced him, in 1846, to buy a compound microscope.
What tissues may be found by dissecting the leg of a chicken?
If the entire class is to examine one specimen, it is generally better to have the dissectingdone beforehand and the parts separated and tacked to small boards.
As Entman gestured, he noted King's reaction to the sight and the smell of the dissecting room.
At the moment, Entman was having a fine, stimulating time dissecting the cadaver of the android.
And the lectures, and the dissecting rooms, has thee thought of the dissecting rooms?
I know I can go through the whole, clinics, dissectingroom and all.
With his half-raised left hand, he makes a gesture of explanation, while with his right he is dissecting a sinew of the arm of his subject.
Now, I had enjoyed the rare opportunity of dissecting the foetus of the Mysticetus, and I knew that the skeleton, prepared with the greatest care, was still preserved in the Museum of the University of Edinburgh.
You must forgive my cheek in dissecting your character like this.
The medical school of Alexandria was well equipped with charts, models, and dissecting rooms for the study of the human body.
Medical students learned anatomy and physiology from old Greek books, instead of in thedissecting room.
Mr Enderby, whose fingers were busydissecting a stalk of flowering grass.
Some of my neighbours think that dissecting is the employment and the passion of my life, and that I rob the churchyard as often as anybody is buried.
I said he was awful tough, and when we had got his legs off and had taken out his brain, his friends come to the dissecting room and claimed the body, and we had to give it up, but I saved the legs.
On dissecting the digestive organs of an Ostrich, I have found a large quantity of stones, pieces of brick, and scraps of wood.
It is very true that only six tones instead of seven are enumerated, but we must not be too critical in dissecting an aphorism.
These directions for dissecting are chiefly taken from Swammerdam, Life xiv.
Swammerdam found a mixture of spirits and distilled vinegar very useful for keeping caterpillars previously to dissecting them, as it consolidated the parts[917].
There were other public dissecting rooms for criminals.
The wretches who gained the name of Resurrection men despoiled graveyards to purvey subjects for the dissecting knife.
When the toad is dead, wash off the specimen and put in a dissecting pan for study.
If specimens are to be kept for some time before dissecting they should be preserved in alcohol or 4% formalin.
The skeleton can be studied by dissecting and boiling and brushing away the flesh which still adheres to the bones.
The covering of scales conceals the outlines of the various external parts, but these scales may be easily removed with dissectingneedle and a small brush.
For some days the toads of the island furnished specimens for the dissecting table; a day or two was devoted to the study of the internal as well as external structure of the lobster, each student dissecting one or more specimens.
In the study of animals, about the first lesson impressed was the necessity of mastering their structure by the free use of the dissecting knife.
Of Herophilus it is said that he had extensive anatomical knowledge, acquired by dissecting not only brutes but human bodies.
The crime has, however, never been proved, though a Milanese physician, who performed the task of dissecting the corpse of Peter Philarges, seems to have thought that he found traces of poison.
In Turkey no facilities for dissecting the dead body exist, as the practice is against the Mahommedan religion; the German pathologists in Turkey, however, insist on making post mortem examinations.
But though the concurrent testimony of antiquity assigns to these physicians the merit of dissecting the human body, time, which wages endless war with the vanity and ambition of man, has dealt hardly with the monuments of their labours.
Macalister published a book on anatomy, which combined the advantages of a text-book with those of a dissecting guide.
Besides these systematic treatises, many dissecting manuals have been published.
The romantic treatment of the novel practically disappeared, and in its place came the realistic or analytic treatment, rendering manners by minute strokes of observation or dissecting motives psychologically.
Also at Lyons, in dissecting a woman, the stomach was no sooner opened than a considerable flame burst out and filled the room.
Ruisch, then anatomical professor at Pisa, was dissecting a woman, and a student holding a candle to give him light, he no sooner opened the stomach than there issued a yellow, greenish flame.
My dealings as against insects are, when all is said, nothing but dissecting room wounds and carbuncle flies' stings.
In this connection, we may recall those dreadful dissecting room accidents.
He was on the staff of two hospitals: in one a ward-surgeon and in the other a dissecting demonstrator.
His partner had started on the minute and was busy dissecting out cutaneous nerves.
But age is a matter of knowledge rather than of years; and Newson, the active young man who was dissecting with him, was very much at home with his subject.
I thought I'd start at two," said the young man who was dissecting with Philip.
In the stove in the cellar charred human bones were found, and in the middle of the room stood a largedissecting table stained with blood.
But don't get scared afterward, when you watch me dissecting a human soul and laying out its various parts on the table.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dissecting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
