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dissecting

noun C2
  1. A dissection; a taking apart.

Plural dissectings

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When it comes to beating the subjects in the dissecting-rooms with a stick, it is certainly taking rather a bizarre shape.”
A Study in Scarlet, p. 6 · B2
Sometimes he spent his day at the chemical laboratory, sometimes in the dissecting-rooms, and occasionally in long walks, which appeared to take him into the lowest portions of the City.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 11 · B2

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