About The Word Anatomy
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Anatomy
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What's The Definition Of Anatomy?
[n] a detailed analysis; "he studied the anatomy of crimes"
[n] alternative names for the body of a human being; "Leonardo studied the human body"; "he has a strong physique"; "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" [n] the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals Synonyms | Synonyms for Anatomy: bod | build | chassis | figure | flesh | form | frame | human body | material body | physical body | physique | shape | soma Related Terms | Find terms related to Anatomy: 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 See Also | adult body | analysis | body | comparative anatomy | female body | gross anatomy | homo | human | human being | individual | juvenile body | male body | man | microscopic anatomy | morphology | mortal | neuroanatomy | organic structure | person | physical structure | somebody | someone | soul Anatomy In Webster's Dictionary \A*nat"o*my\, n.; pl. {Anatomies}. [F. anatomie, L.
anatomia, Gr. ? dissection, fr. ? to cut up; ? + ? to cut.]
1. The art of dissecting, or artificially separating the
different parts of any organized body, to discover their
situation, structure, and economy; dissection.
2. The science which treats of the structure of organic
bodies; anatomical structure or organization.
Let the muscles be well inserted and bound together,
according to the knowledge of them which is given us
by anatomy. --Dryden.
Note: ``Animal anatomy'' is sometimes called {zomy};
``vegetable anatomy,'' {phytotomy}; ``human anatomy,''
{anthropotomy}.
{Comparative anatomy} compares the structure of different
kinds and classes of animals.
3. A treatise or book on anatomy.
4. The act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual,
for the purpose of examining its parts; analysis; as, the
anatomy of a discourse.
5. A skeleton; anything anatomized or dissected, or which has
the appearance of being so.
The anatomy of a little child, representing all
parts thereof, is accounted a greater rarity than
the skeleton of a man in full stature. --Fuller.
They brought one Pinch, a hungry, lean-faced
villain, A mere anatomy. --Shak.
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