predissected

adj

Meaning

Having been dissected in advance.

Examples

There has been a trend among medical schools to eliminate the gross anatomy lab dissection, replacing it with a (far less time-consuming) study of predissected, preserved prosections and computerized simulations.

Etymology

From pre- + dissected.

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