Dissecting-table
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"I wanted to study man thoroughly, to dissect him fibre by fibre with an inexorable scalpel, and to watch him, alive and palpitating, on my dissecting-table."--Mademoiselle de Maupin (1835) by Théophile Gautier |
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A dissecting table is a table on which dissections, especially anthropotomies, are performed. When these operations are performed in front of an audience, it is usually placed in the middle of the room, as was the case in the anatomical theaters of modern times, where it was the center of the set of concentric tiers that usually formed the lecture hall.
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See also
- Anatomy
- Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella
- Dissecting the Erotic: Art and Sexuality in Mid-Victorian Medical Anatomy
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