Sentence examples for human dissection from inspiring English sources

I did human dissection for about a year.

Today most people would pass on an invitation to witness a human dissection.

"Dead Body of Knowledge," by Christine Montross (Op-Ed, March 27), was a welcome reminder of the value of human dissection.

The Beauty of Anatomy (8.30pm, BBC4, Wednesday), in which Dr Adam Rutherford explores the influence of human dissection on art, also intriguingly touches on the origins of the artform in which Rutherford is working.

"It is always difficult to decide how much anatomy should be learned by a doctor," said Dr. Frank Gonzalez-Cretireda retired pathologist in Chicago who has written extensively on the history and philosophy of human dissection.

As recently as 30 years ago, medical students who expressed any fear or squeamishness about human dissection were often told they were "weak" and in the wrong field, Dr. Olson of Einstein said.

In the Middle Ages, human dissections were forbidden.

I was particularly fascinated by a reconstruction of Leiden's Theatrum Anatomicum, a steeply raked anatomical theater where Boerhaave and others performed human dissections while skeletons and other memento mori loomed overhead.

The Greeks and the Indians cremated their dead without examination; the Romans, Chinese, and Muslims all had taboos about opening the body; and human dissections were not permitted during the Middle Ages.

A first-year class, gross anatomy includes an average of 170 hours of human dissection--roughly twice the amount of time devoted to many other courses.

Galen's texts wouldn't be challenged for anatomical supremacy until the Renaissance, when human dissections — often in public — surged in popularity.