Etymology

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Today it means: A person who prepares a body for dissection by students, or dissects them as demonstrations. Full definition →

Latin [Term?]
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  1. Latin · learned borrowing from[Term?]“an anatomist”
  2. English todayprosector

From Latin [Term?] (“an anatomist”), from prosecare (“to cut up”).

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