Anatomy
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Noun
Anatomy (plural anatomies)- 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; as, the anatomy of a discourse.
- (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.
- (archaic) A skeleton, or dead body.
Verbs for Anatomy
advance; approach; consult; develop; dissect; practice; protect; rely on; reveal; segregate; shrink; shrivel; sketch; wither; admits; analyzes; applies to; considers; deals with; defines; denotes; details; detects; develops; dissects; investigates; produces; rejects; signifies; specializes; teaches; traces; treats of.
Thesaurus
aerobiology; agrobiology; amnion; analysis; analyzation; anatomist; anatomizing; angiography; angiology; animal physiology; anthropography; anthropologist; anthropology; anthropometry; anthropotomy; appendicular skeleton; architectonics; architecture; arrangement; assay; assaying; astrobiology; axial skeleton; bacteriology; behavioral science; biochemics; biochemistry; biochemy; bioecology; biological science; biology; biometrics; biometry; bionics; bionomics; biophysics; bladder; bleb; blister; body; body-build; boll; bones; botany; breakdown; breaking down; breaking up; breakup; build; building; calyx; capsule; carcass; cell; cell physiology; clay; clod; comparative anatomy; composition; conchology; conformation; constitution; construction; corpus; craniology; craniometry; creation; cryobiology; cybernetics; cyst; cytology; demography; diaeresis; dissection; division; docimasy; ecology; electrobiology; embryology; entomology; enzymology; ethnobiology; ethnography; ethnologist; ethnology; ethology; exobiology; exoskeleton; fabric; fabrication; fashion; fashioning; figure; fistula; flesh; follicle; forging; form; format; formation; frame; gallbladder; genetics; geomorphology; getup; gnotobiotics; gravimetric analysis; helminthology; herpetology; histologist; histology; hulk; human ecology; human geography; ichthyology; legume; life science; loculus; make; makeup; making; malacology; mammalogy; manufacture; marsupium; material body; microbiology; mold; molding; molecular biology; morphologist; morphology; myography; myology; organic structure; organism; organization; organography; organology; ornithology; osteography; osteology; pattern; patterning; pericarp; person; pharmacology; physical body; physiology; physique; plan; pocket; pod; production; protozoology; proximate analysis; psychology; quantitative analysis; radiobiology; reduction to elements; resolution; sac; saccule; sacculus; saccus; science of man; scrotum; seedcase; segmentation; semimicroanalysis; separation; setup; shape; shaping; silique; sinus; skeleton; sociologist; sociology; soma; sound; splanchnography; splanchnology; stomach; structure; structuring; subdivision; taxidermy; taxonomy; tectology; tectonics; texture; tissue; torso; trunk; udder; vasculum; ventricle; vesica; vesicle; virology; warp and woof; weave; web; xenobiology; zoogeography; zoography; zoology; zoonomy; zoopathology; zoophysics; zootaxy; zootomy
Etymology
From French anatomie, from Latin anatomia, from Ancient Greek ἀνατομία, from ἀνατομή (anatome, “dissection”), from ἀνά (ana, “up”) + τέμνω (temnō, “I cut, incise”).
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