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Definition of anatomy :
1. A skeleton; anything anatomized or dissected, or which has the appearance of being so.
2. A treatise or book on anatomy.
3. The act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts; analysis; as, the anatomy of a discourse.
4. The art of dissecting, or artificially separating the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dissection.
5. The science which treats of the structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure or organization.
Synonyms:
public figure, capsule, carcass, number, search, skeletal system, assemble, physical, analysis, haoma, systema skeletale, digit, material body, examination, anatomizing, pattern, grade, aerodynamics, person, physique, deconstruction, investigate, descriptor, variety, trope, body, big science, course, sort, figure of speech, human body, chassis, astrophysics, frame of reference, framing, signifier, embodiment, bony, carapace, bodily, physically, blowhole, skeletal frame, genetics, class, variant, word form, mannequin, contour, form, aeronautics, antler, somatic, kind, medicine, manikin, survey, pulp, belly, phase, fig, var., flesh, ballistics, body image, name, general anatomy, manakin, anatomical, figure, division, mannikin, physical body, bod, human, breakdown, build, condition, assay, body-build, scrutiny, design, cast, conformation, soma, astronomy, strain, underframe, bacteriology, check, configuration, inspection, diagnosis, due diligence, arm, review, dissection, inning, biochemistry, image, habitus
structure (part of speech: noun)
frame, framework, architecture, building, edifice, arrangement, fabric, construction, composition, shape, constitution, skeleton, structure, makeup
zoology (part of speech: noun)
ethnology, biology, physiology, taxidermy, zoology, anthropology
Usage examples:
- The College of Physicians taught more practical medicine and anatomy than the universities. - "Our Legal Heritage, 4th Ed.", S. A. Reilly.
- In 1543 he published the first finely detailed description of human anatomy. - "Our Legal Heritage", S. A. Reilly.
- Anatomy was forbidden, partly perhaps on account of the doctrine of the resurrection of the body. - "A History of Freedom of Thought", John Bagnell Bury.