Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The anatomy or dissection of the human body; human anatomy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The anatomy or dissection of the human body; androtomy.
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- noun The
anatomy ordissection of thehuman body ;androtomy .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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Examples
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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
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Except the human anatomist turns now to what he terms the practical ends of his study, and marshals his little knowledge to bear upon those ends, one may proclaim anthropotomy to have worn itself out.
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
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