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When was the first human dissection?


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Human dissection:

  1. The word dissection means to cut into pieces.
  2. Dissection is the dismembering of the body to study its anatomical structure.
  3. It was performed in the first half of the III century B.C by two Greeks named Herophilus of Chalcedon and his younger contemporary Erasistratus of Ceo.

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