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/ənˈætəmi/ Listen

noun

Anatomy n. (pl. anatomies)

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." 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." "They brought one Pinch, a hungry, lean-faced villain, A mere anatomy."

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... correspondent S.G. will find a brief notice of this person in Rose's Biographical Dictionary, London, 1848. It appears he was rector of Horninger, and a friend of Camden; who prefixed some commendatory verses to a work of his, entitled The Anatomy of the Mind. I would suggest to S.G. that further information may probably be collected respecting him from these verses, and from the prefaces, &c. of his other works, of which a long list is given in ...

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