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Anatomy   /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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... printed a work, entitled "the Anatomy of the Mass." It is a thin octavo, of 172 pages, and it is accompanied by an Errata of 15 pages! The editor, a pious monk, informs us that a very serious reason induced him to undertake this task: for it is, says ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli

... 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 ...
— Notes and Queries, Issue No. 61, December 28, 1850 • Various

... OF EMBALMING.—The custom of embalming the dead, affording opportunities for the examination of the body, without doubt had a great influence upon the development of the sciences of anatomy and medicine among the Egyptians. That the embalmers were physicians, we know from various testimonies. Thus we are told in the Bible that Joseph "commanded the physicians to embalm his father." The Egyptian doctors had a very great ...
— A General History for Colleges and High Schools • P. V. N. Myers

... wire. Her hair, half black, half gray, hung in total neglect nearly to the ground, and her sole garment consisted of the remnant of a discarded buffalo robe tied round her waist with a string of hide. Yet the old squaw's meager anatomy was wonderfully strong. She pitched the lodge, packed the horses, and did the hardest labor of the camp. From morning till night she bustled about the lodge, screaming like a screech-owl when anything displeased her. Then there was her brother, a "medicine-man," ...
— The Oregon Trail • Francis Parkman, Jr.

... and annex to each of these general Sciences, as they are called in the language of Positivism, its derived or dependent branches, we shall have the following order: Chemistry; Geology; Biology, including Botany, Human and Comparative Anatomy, and Physiology; Zoology; Sociology; and La Morale. Although this enlarged scale is defective, many important departments, such as Ethnology, Philology, etc., being left out, it is sufficiently correct to show the complex nature ...
— Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, Issue 2, February, 1864 • Various


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