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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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: ``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. --Fuller. They brought one Pinch, a hungry, lean-faced villain, A mere anatomy. --Shak.
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