dissect
v.to cut open a body or an object to look at its parts. You usually do this to learn about how something works or to find a problem.
v.to cut open a body or object to examine its internal structure or to analyze a subject in detail. Often used in medical, surgical, or academic contexts.
“The surgeon will dissect the tissue to find the cause of the infection.”
“During the biology class, the students had to dissect a frog to understand its internal organs.”
“The forensic team carefully dissected the evidence to determine the exact sequence of events that led to the structural failure of the bridge.”
“Each appearance, commission and production has been dissected: there have been blockbuster hits, much-publicised misses and some brutal reviews along the way.”
“The merits or otherwise of these opinions will now be dissected and analysed - and Carrick knows it.”
Borrowed from Latin dissectus past participle of dissecare (“to cut asunder, cut up”), from dis- (“asunder”) + secare (“to cut”); see section.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.