Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An anatomist of the human body.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who is versed in anthropotomy, or human anatomy.
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- noun One who is versed in
anthropotomy , orhuman anatomy .
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Examples
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The physiologist of the present day is too little of a comparative anatomist, and far too closely enveloped in the absurd jargon of the anthropotomist, ever to hope to reveal any great truth for science, and dispel the mists which still hang over the phenomena of the nervous system.
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
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Comparative anatomy, which alone can furnish these interpretations, will therefore prove to be no alien to the practical, while it may lend explanation to those bizarreries which impede the way of the anthropotomist.
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
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Localized blood-filled dilatation of a blood vessel caused by disease or weakening of the vessel's wall. anthropotomist (anthropotomy)
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
Gammerstang commented on the word anthropotomist
(noun) - (1) One who studies human anatomy.
--Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1888
(2) One who cuts up or dissects a man; from Greek anthropos, man, and tomis or tomeus, one who cuts.
--Edward Lloyd's Encyclopædic Dictionary, 1895
January 16, 2018