To analyze an idea in detail by separating it into its parts.
To study an animal's anatomy by cutting it apart; to perform a necropsy or an autopsy.
To separate muscles, organs, and so on without cutting into them or disrupting their architecture.
Of an infection or foreign material, following the fascia separating muscles or other organs.
To study a plant or other organism's anatomy similarly.
To get past a difficult or stressful situation by thinking or talking about it.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see work, through.