Word: dissecter
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...undergraduate social service work in the community. As many as 425 students have been working in settlement houses all over Boston under its direction, engaged in such activities as tutoring the Jamaica Negro Mothers' Club in Music, conducting hikes into the country, and showing school boys how to dissect frogs...
...which imposes a lofty dignity! One no longer feels dominated by the phrase, the literal meaning of the words. Cast in an immutable mold which adequately expresses their value, they do not require any further commentary. The text thus becomes purely phonetic material for the composer. He can dissect it at will and concentrate all his attention on its primary constituent element--that is to say, on the syllable. Was not this method of treating the text that of the old masters of the austere style? This, too, has for centuries been the Church's attitude towards music...
Afterwards the pupils went downstairs to the boiler room, there quietly watched a science teacher dissect Fat Stuff. They saw where bacon, ham and pork chops come from, saw Fat Stuff's stomach, lungs, liver, heart. In a few days any pupils who have the appetite for it will be able to eat Fat Stuff in the school cafeteria...
...14th-Century Italy, public dissections were held in university halls and were occasions for great festivity. In the 16th Century, British surgeons were legally allowed to dissect dead bodies. Edinburgh surgeons were granted "ane condampnit [condemned] man after he be deid." But by the 18th Century, corpses were in such great demand by anatomists that "resurrection" of dead bodies "became a racket, the like of which Chicago never knew." Rival gangs robbed graves, lured victims to lonely inns, strangled them, sold the remains to innocent doctors. Londoners sang the popular ballad of Mary's Ghost, complaint of a resurrected...
...Harriet" doubtless heard Anatomist Weaver grumble that the 3,000 Confederate cadavers furnished him little new information about anatomy. She doubtless heard him complain about the difficulty of getting good specimens to dissect. She doubtless heard him yearn to be the first anatomist to make a thorough dissection of the human cerebrospinal nervous system from head to heel, from spine to sternum...