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anatomy

/əˈnætəmi/

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“We studied anatomy in the laboratory.”

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What does anatomy mean?

noun

  1. The science that deals with the form and structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure or organization.
  2. The study of the parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy.
  3. The physical or functional organization of an organism, or part of it.
More meanings (5)

noun

  1. A treatise or book on anatomy.
  2. The form of an individual.
  3. The human body, especially in reference to the genitals.
  4. The act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts.
  5. (archaic) A skeleton or other dead body.
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Although the functions of the organs in the chest were not well understood by Galen, he was well acquainted with their anatomy.
Henry Smith Williams; Edward Huntington WilliamsA History of Science — Volume 1Project Gutenberg ebook #1705
The Sun is alive, glowing with life, and constitutes the heart and arterial center of all the circulating fluids of the stellar anatomy.
Thomas H. Burgoyne; Belle M. WagnerThe Light of Egypt; Or, The Science of the Soul and the Stars — Volume 2Project Gutenberg ebook #1650
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Comparative anatomy has only lately obtained a hold in the public mind, and in the Middle Ages little was known of it.
George M. (George Milbrey) Gould; Walter L. (Walter Lytle) PyleAnomalies and Curiosities of MedicineProject Gutenberg ebook #747
As the creator of the sciences of comparative anatomy, systematic zoology, embryology, teratology, botany and physiology, his writings have an eternal interest.
William, Sir OslerThe Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913Project Gutenberg ebook #1566
We shall readily understand this when we bear in mind the anatomy of the parts concerned, especially that of the plantar cushion.
H. Caulton (Harry Caulton) ReeksDiseases of the Horse's FootProject Gutenberg ebook #11204