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anatomy
The art of studying the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dissection.
The science that deals with the form and structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure or organization.
A treatise or book on anatomy.
The act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts; analysis
(colloquial) The form of an individual, particularly a person, used in a tongue in cheek manner, as might be a term used by a medical professional, but in a markedly a less formal context, in which a touch of irony becomes apparent.
“Not that I'm not very familiar with a hedgehog's anatomy but it's what I imagine the back third of a hedgehog would be like.”
“If she wasn't careful, that man would have her wrapped around his little finger and every other part of his anatomy. And what a fine anatomy it was.”
“While the actual anatomy of the system makes it difficult to appreciate easily, the basic design of the system is a continuous loop of branching vessels with two pumps in the loop.”
anatomism
The application of the principles of anatomy, as in art.
The doctrine that the anatomical structure explains all the phenomena of the organism or of animal life.
anatomist
One who studies, teaches, writes on, or does research on anatomy and anatomical structures.
“As in Updike's Rabbit novels, Villages provides, on a smaller scale, a breezy anatomization of American manners and mores over the last half-century.”
“Mayhew, despite the most pedantic anatomization of the condition and variety of street-sweepers, rarely feels obliged to allude to what is actually being swept.”
“The Dark should logically offer the perfect anatomization of the stable relations between men in Ireland at the mid-century.”
