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microdissection

noun

microdissection is spelled M-I-C-R-O-D-I-S-S-E-C-T-I-O-N: 15 letters. It appears about once in every 52 million words in written English, the 225,584th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, microdissection means “A dissection using a microscope and very fine instruments” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of microdissection is microdissections.

How many letters and syllables are in microdissection?

Letters15: M-I-C-R-O-D-I-S-S-E-C-T-I-O-N
In writingabout once in every 52 million words; the 225,584th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is microdissection?

Microdissection appears about once in every 52 million words in written English, the 225,584th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of microdissection

  • microdissections plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does microdissection mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A dissection using a microscope and very fine instruments.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does microdissection come from?

From micro- + dissection.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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