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- noun Plural form of
dissector .
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Examples
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Like all good dissectors, all three of us were taking pictures of our work.
Archive 2007-03-01 Sarah Werning 2007
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LEMON: And of course, whenever presidents talk, there's never a shortage of dissectors and dissenters, supporters and critics.
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Like all good dissectors, all three of us were taking pictures of our work.
Two Pieces of Advice Sarah Werning 2007
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Bertman summarized the experience in a quote published on the cover of a compilation of drawings, poems and essays: “It is commonly known that medical students dissect the bodies of the dead, it is less commonly realized that these same dead do a great deal of cutting, probing, and pulling at the minds of their youthful dissectors.”
Body of Knowledge Steve Giegerich 2001
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_ -- The cavity containing the brain of a crocodile measuring thirteen or fourteen feet, will hardly admit the thumb; and the brain of the chamelion is not, according to the description of the Paris dissectors, larger than a pea.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 561, August 11, 1832 Various
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Moonstone for a change of air, and Collie and me had a meetin 'of the board of dissectors.
Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail Henry Herbert Knibbs 1909
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The purpose of this course is not to make skilled dissectors, but to give every student a clear and definite conception, by means of sense images, of the characteristic structure of each of the leading modifications of the animal kingdom; and that is perfectly possible by going no further than the length of that list of forms which I have enumerated.
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Two able dissectors carefully test their action by experiment, and come to a result. the exact reverse of the truth.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science 1904
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The Papal physicians were among the greatest dissectors.
Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages James Joseph Walsh 1903
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There is a happy moment for fixing skill in drawing, for making boys collectors in natural history, and presently dissectors and botanists; then for initiating them into the harmonies of mechanics and the wonders of physical and chemical law.
The Mind and Its Education George Herbert Betts 1901
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