anatomy
anatomy - English
Pronunciation
- IPA: /əˈnæt.ə.mi/
Noun
anatomy (countable and uncountable, plural anatomies)
- The art of studying the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy.
- Synonym: dissection
- The science that deals with the form and structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure or organization.
- Hyponyms: anthropotomy, phytotomy, zootomy
- Animal anatomy is also called zootomy; vegetable anatomy, phytotomy; and human anatomy, anthropotomy.
- (countable) A treatise or book on anatomy.
- (by extension) The act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts.
- Synonym: analysis
- the anatomy of a discourse
- the anatomy of love
- Burton's famous treatise, "The Anatomy of Melancholy"
- (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 Greek anatomy.
- (euphemistic) The human body, especially in reference to the private parts.
- (archaic) A skeleton, or dead body.
- The physical or functional organization of an organism, or part of it.
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