Category:Dissection

Dissection consists of the careful cutting apart of flesh, whether from a fresh corpse or a fleshly picked plant, in the quest for knowledge of the material processes of life. Dissection is a fundamental procedure in biology and medicine and is taught universally to biology students and to all medical students of advanced lands. Exploration, experimentation, and research in the fields of biology and medicine depend upon, and make copious use of, dissection. Dissection must not be confused with vivisection, wherein the flesh that is cut open is that of a still living thing. Dissection is sometimes said to be the stuff of ghouls. It has an unsavoury reputation among the unwashed masses of modern lands where it is nonetheless legal and is loosely regulated at best. It may be greeted with abject horror in more primative lands as transgression and in such places it may not enjoy the protection of law. Religion tends to take a dim view of dissection, often accusing it of desecration.