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Synonyms for anatomy

Grammar : Noun
Spell : uh-nat-uh-mee
Phonetic Transcription : əˈnæt ə mi

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Définition of anatomy

Origin :
  • late 14c., "study of the structure of living beings;" c.1400, "anatomical structures," from Old French anatomie, from Late Latin anatomia, from Greek anatomia, from anatome "dissection," from ana- "up" (see ana-) + temnein "to cut" (see tome). "Dissection" (1540s), "mummy" (1580s), and "skeleton" (1590s) were primary senses of this word in Shakespeare's day; meaning "the science of the structure of organized bodies" predominated from 17c. Often mistakenly divided as an atomy or a natomy.
  • The scyence of the Nathomy is nedefull and necessarye to the Cyrurgyen [1541]
  • noun study of animal, plant structure
  • noun physical structure of animals, plants
Example sentences :
  • I had to describe the little ones with the minuteness of anatomy.
  • Extract from : « The Letters of Robert Burns » by Robert Burns
  • Its use has practically been superseded by the study of anatomy.
  • Extract from : « Albert Durer » by T. Sturge Moore
  • His legs were the only part of his anatomy which seemed to him as long as his nose.
  • Extract from : « A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs » by Laurence Hutton
  • As picture teaches the coloring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.
  • Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Michael Angelo maintained, that, to an architect, a knowledge of anatomy is essential.
  • Extract from : « Nature » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • When either one exposed any portion of his anatomy the other would shoot.
  • Extract from : « Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman » by J. H. (James Harvey) Kidd
  • She married a professor of anatomy, and brought all her wealth to him as a dower.
  • Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
  • Dr Tulp's Anatomy, painted in 1632, is the most famous of this period.
  • Extract from : « Six Centuries of Painting » by Randall Davies
  • Thus his physiology and anatomy had to be derived mainly from animal sources.
  • Extract from : « The Legacy of Greece » by Various
  • That means we simply describe the facts once more in the terms of anatomy.
  • Extract from : « Psychotherapy » by Hugo Mnsterberg

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