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Dissection facts for kids

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Dissection is a standard laboratory technique in biology and pathology. To dissect is to cut up a body so as to reveal its structure. The body could be that of a human, an animal, or a plant. Dissections are regularly done in autopsies to help determine the cause of death. They are done by zoologists to find out the internal structure of animal bodies. The comparative anatomy of animals, revealed by dissections, gives clues as to their evolutionary relationships.

Images for kids

  • Dissection tools

    Dissection tools. Left to right: scalpels with No. 20 and No. 12 blades, two forceps and scissors

  • Galen, Opera omnia, dissection of a pig. Wellcome L0020565

    Galen (129–c.200 AD), Opera omnia, dissection of a pig. Engraving made in Venice, 1565

  • Al-zahrawi surgical tools

    Page from a 1531 Latin translation by Peter Argellata of Al-Zahrawi's c. 1000 treatise on surgical and medical instruments

  • Unique body snatching headstone, Stirling, 1823

    Body snatching headstone of an 1823 grave in Stirling

  • Teen-Girl-Student-Dissecting-Animal-Eye

    A teenage school pupil dissecting an eye

  • Gray1024

    Dissection of a human cheek from Gray's Anatomy (1918)

  • Aiguillat commun (dissection)

    Dissection of a spiny dogfish

  • Ruthin School Uploads 03

    Dissection in a secondary school GCSE class

  • Bovine articulation (tarsus)

    Technique of dissection and glycerination in Bovine articulation (tarsus)

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