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Anatomy

//əˈnæt.ə.mi// noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    The art of studying the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    a detailed analysis wordnet
  3. 3
    The science that deals with the form and structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure or organization. countable, uncountable

    "Animal anatomy is also called zootomy; vegetable anatomy, phytotomy; and human anatomy, anthropotomy."

  4. 4
    alternative names for the body of a human being wordnet
  5. 5
    A treatise or book on anatomy. countable
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  1. 6
    the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals wordnet
  2. 7
    The act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts. broadly, countable, uncountable

    "the anatomy of a discourse"

  3. 8
    The form of an individual. colloquial, countable, uncountable

    "I went to the Venice beach body-building competition and noticed the competitor from Athens, and let me tell you, that's what I call classic Greek anatomy."

  4. 9
    The human body, especially in reference to the genitals. countable, euphemistic, uncountable

    "His extraordinary suggestion is that the future PM inserted a private part of his anatomy into the animal's mouth."

  5. 10
    A skeleton or other dead body. archaic, countable

    "So did the Ægyptians, who in the middest of their banquetings, and in the full of their greatest cheere, caused the anatomy of a dead man to be brought before them, as a memorandum and warning to their guests."

  6. 11
    The physical or functional organization of an organism, or part of it. countable, uncountable

    "The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure."

Etymology

From Middle English anatomie, from Old French anatomie, from Latin anatomia, from Ancient Greek *ἀνατομία (*anatomía), from ἀνατομή (anatomḗ, “dissection”, literally “cutting up”), from ἀνά (aná, “up”) + τέμνω (témnō, “to cut, incise”). By surface analysis, ana- + -tomy. Doublet of ottomy.

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