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FromMiddle Englishanatomie, fromOld Frenchanatomie, fromLatinanatomia, fromAncient Greek*ἀνατομία(*anatomía), fromἀνατομή(anatomḗ,“dissection”, literally“cutting up”), fromἀνά(aná,“up”) +τέμνω(témnō,“to cut, incise”). Bysurface analysis,ana- +‎-tomy.Doublet ofottomy.

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anatomy (countable anduncountable,pluralanatomies)

  1. The art of studying the different parts of any organizedbody, to discover their situation,structure, andeconomy.
    Synonym:dissection
  2. Thescience that deals with the form and structure oforganic bodies; anatomical structure or organization.
    Hyponyms:anthropotomy,phytotomy,zootomy
    Animalanatomy is also called zootomy; vegetableanatomy, phytotomy; and humananatomy, anthropotomy.
    • 1695,C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, translated byJohn Dryden,De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, […], London: […] J[ohn] Heptinstall for W. Rogers, […],→OCLC:
      Let the muscles be well inserted and bound together, according to the knowledge of them which is given us byanatomy.
  3. (countable) Atreatise orbook on anatomy.
  4. (by extension) The act of dividing anything,corporeal orintellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts.
    Synonym:analysis
    theanatomy of a discourse
    theanatomy of love
    Burton's famous treatise, "TheAnatomy of Melancholy"
  5. (colloquial) The form of an individual.
    I went to the Venice beach body-building competition and noticed the competitor from Athens, and let me tell you, that's what I call classic Greekanatomy.
  6. (euphemistic) The human body, especially in reference to theprivate parts.
    • 2015 September 20, Michael Ashcroft, Isabel Oakeshott, “Drugs, debauchery and the making of an extraordinary Prime Minister: For years rumours have dogged him. Now, the truth about the shockingly decadent Oxford days of the gifted Bullingdon boy”, inDaily Mail‎[1]:
      His extraordinary suggestion is that the future PM inserted a private part of hisanatomy into the animal's mouth.
    • 2016 December 28, Jessica Taylor, “11 Times Donald Trump Looked Like He Was Done For”, inNPR‎[2]:
      On the debate stage days later, Trump wanted all of America to know there was "no problem" with the size of his hands — or any other part of hisanatomy.
  7. (archaic) Askeleton, or dead body.
  8. The physical or functional organization of an organism, or part of it.
    • 2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, inThe Economist, volume408, number8847:
      The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’sanatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.

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Translations

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art of studying the different parts of any organized body

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