vivisect - cut (a body) open while still alive; "people no longer vivisect animals--it's considered unethical"

anatomise, anatomize - dissect in order to analyze; "anatomize the bodies of the victims of this strange disease"

cut - separate with or as if with an instrument; "Cut the rope"

parse - analyze syntactically by assigning a constituent structure to (a sentence)

botanise, botanize - collect and study plants