Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An expert in or a student of anatomy.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who is versed in anatomy; one skilled in the art of dissection.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who is skilled in the art of anatomy, or dissection.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who studies, teaches, writes on, or does research on anatomy and anatomical structures.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an expert in anatomy

Etymologies

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anatomy +‎ -ist

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Examples

  • The comparative anatomist is interested in examining the similarities and differences to be found in animal or plant organs which carry out the same function; he is very cautious, however, about proclaiming the virtues of a device found in one particular species over a device for a similar purpose found in another.

    Education in the Western World 1957

  • In his own way he is a kind of anatomist and physiologist.

    Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged) Wesley Mills 1881

  • Can you speak about those pertaining to sex bordering on rape, and of course, the agenda of the sadistic "anatomist" who almost kills George?

    Film Threat Amy R. Handler 2010

  • One day in 1780, a Italian anatomist Luigi Galvani (Luigi Galvani) do dissections of frogs, hands hold VGP-BPS10A/B all kinds of metallic equipment, inadvertently touched a thigh of a frog during a same time, a contraction muscles of frog legs during once a moment, as a stimulatory effect, as well as if only a steel instrument to! touch a frogs, a absence of such a reaction.

    Archive 2009-12-01 admin 2009

  • Portrait of a Italian anatomist Luigi Galvani, since a anatomy of a frog, when he detected a bio-power as well as famous, please note that a lower part of this portrait of a half-frog

    A brief 200 years history of the battery at Digital battery admin 2009

  • As an artist, Edvard Munch saw himself as nothing less than an anatomist of the soul.

    A Thoroughly Modern Munch Tobias Grey 2011

  • The controversy raged for almost a century before an exasperated American anatomist pointed out that "English-speaking researchers were pulling down English-language publications and non-English-speakers were dipping into exclusively non-English publications and both camps were simply rehashing what they'd read."

    China's Cuddly Emissaries Judith Martin 2011

  • Portrait of a Italian anatomist Luigi Galvani, since a anatomy of a frog, when he detected a bio-power as well as famous, please note that a lower part of this portrait of a half-frog

    Archive 2009-12-01 admin 2009

  • Da Vinci was a painter, engineer, botanist, and an anatomist.

    SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 598 2009

  • One day in 1780, a Italian anatomist Luigi Galvani (Luigi Galvani) do dissections of frogs, hands hold VGP-BPS10A/B all kinds of metallic equipment, inadvertently touched a thigh of a frog during a same time, a contraction muscles of frog legs during once a moment, as a stimulatory effect, as well as if only a steel instrument to! touch a frogs, a absence of such a reaction.

    A brief 200 years history of the battery at Digital battery admin 2009

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