Anatomy
[ə'nætəmɪ] or [ə'nætəmi]
Definition
(noun.) a detailed analysis; 'he studied the anatomy of crimes'.
(noun.) the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals.
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Definition
(n.) The art of dissecting, or artificially separating the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dissection.
(n.) The science which treats of the structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure or organization.
(n.) A treatise or book on anatomy.
(n.) The act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts; analysis; as, the anatomy of a discourse.
(n.) A skeleton; anything anatomized or dissected, or which has the appearance of being so.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Dissection.[2]. Science of bodily structure.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Dissection, division, segregation, analysis, resolution, dismemberment
ANT:Synthesis, collocation, organization, union, construction, structure, form,body
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Definition
n. the art of dissecting any organised body: science of the structure of the body learned by dissection: a skeleton a shrivelled and shrunken body a mummy: (fig.) the lifeless form or shadow of anything: humorously for the body generally: the detailed analysis of anything as in Burton's famous treatise The Anatomy of Melancholy.—adjs. Anatom′ic -al relating to anatomy.—adv. Anatom′ically.—v.t. Anat′omise to dissect a body: (fig.) to lay open minutely.—n. Anat′omist one skilled in anatomy.
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Examples
- And the only way he could get to know anatomy as he did, was by going to snatch bodies at night, from graveyards and places of execution. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Some knowledge of anatomy was involved in the removal of the viscera, and much more in a particular method they followed in removing the brain. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Anatomy she described as the Professor's favourite recreation in his leisure hours. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I am thinking of a great fellow, who was about as old as I am three hundred years ago, and had already begun a new era in anatomy. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- We were looking not for the evils of Big Business, but for its anatomy. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Physical astronomy, physical geography, meteorology, ph ysics, chemistry, geology, botany, anatomy, physiology, embryology, and zo?logy were enriched by his teaching. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The page he opened on was under the head of Anatomy, and the first passage that drew his eyes was on the valves of the heart. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- There have come down to us notes of his lectures on anatomy delivered first in 1616. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Harvey professed to learn and teach anatomy, not from books, but from dissections, not from the dogmas of the philosophers, but from the fabric of nature. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The priests studied the liver s of sacrificial animals in order to divine the thoughts of the gods--a practice which stimulated the study of anatomy. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The long-slumbering science of anatomy was revived by Harvey (1578-1657), who demonstrated the circulation of the blood. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Here and there in these cabinets may also be found a few models which he has used at times in his studies of anatomy and physiology. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Still, though thus pitiless in moral anatomy, she was no scandal-monger. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- One of his chief contributions to anatomy is the descri ption of the heart and of the arrangement of the blood-vessels. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Then he sat up and felt of various portions of his anatomy. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
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