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Historical Examples

Psychology is therefore of equal importance with anatomy and acoustics as an element of Vocal Science.

Its use has practically been superseded by the study of anatomy.

Nobody e'd have blamed you any if you'd aimed at a vital section of his anatomy; but you let him off with little more'n a scratch.

His legs were the only part of his anatomy which seemed to him as long as his nose.

Until the end of the fifteenth century progress in anatomy was almost imperceptible.

British Dictionary definitions for anatomy Expand

the science concerned with the physical structure of animals and plants

the physical structure of an animal or plant or any of its parts

a book or treatise on this subject

dissection of an animal or plant

any detailed analysis: the anatomy of a crime

(informal) the human body

Word Origin

C14: from Latin anatomia, from Greek anatom, from anatemnein to cut up, from ana- + temnein to cut

Word Origin and History for anatomy Expand

late 14c., "study of the structure of living beings;" c.1400, "anatomical structures," from Old French anatomie, from Late Latin anatomia, from Greek anatomia, from anatome "dissection," from ana- "up" (see ana-) + temnein "to cut" (see tome). "Dissection" (1540s), "mummy" (1580s), and "skeleton" (1590s) were primary senses of this word in Shakespeare's day; meaning "the science of the structure of organized bodies" predominated from 17c. Often mistakenly divided as an atomy or a natomy.

anatomy in Medicine Expand

anatomy anatomy (-nt'-m) n.

The morphological structure of a plant or an animal or of any of its parts.

The science of the shape and structure of organisms and their parts.

Dissection of an animal to study the structure, position, and interrelation of its various parts.

A skeleton.

The human body.

anatomy in Science Expand

The structure of an organism or any of its parts.

The scientific study of the shape and structure of organisms and their parts.

anatomy in Culture Expand

The structure of an animal or plant; also, the study of this structure through techniques such as microscopic observation and dissection. (Compare morphology and physiology.)

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