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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Anatomy \A*nat"o*my\, n.; pl. {Anatomies}. [F. anatomie, L. anatomia, Gr. [?] dissection, fr. [?] to cut up; [?] + [?] to cut.] 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. --Dryden. Note: [bd]Animal anatomy[b8] is sometimes called {zomy}; [bd]vegetable anatomy,[b8] {phytotomy}; [bd]human anatomy,[b8] {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. --Fuller. They brought one Pinch, a hungry, lean-faced villain, A mere anatomy. --Shak. | |
