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anatomy

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE comparative ▪ As well as medical preparations, it contained a great deal of comparative anatomy , including fossils. ▪ Works on comparative anatomy continued this tradition, though by the nineteenth century there ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "study of the structure of living beings;" c.1400, "anatomical structures," from Old French anatomie , from Late Latin anatomia , from Greek anatomia , from anatome "dissection," from ana- "up" (see ana- ) + temnein "to cut" (see tome ). "Dissection" ...

Usage examples of anatomy.

Either the analysand is phenomenally ignorant of anatomy, especially female anatomy, or he is here hallucinating a manic wish-fantasy born of libido too long suppressed.

Tarantella, tarantula extraordinaire, paused on the stone step, produced a microscopically small lipstick from some hidden part of her anatomy, and raked the family with a withering stare.

The future of anatomy and physiology, as an enthusiastic micrologist of the time said, was in the hands of Messrs.

The blade took the science of anatomy and dueling and overlaid it on the fight.

It was the color of the filth on the lamp, but wet, its too-naked anatomy full of peristaltic motions.

Ressler, rising science star, split, flapped, and pinned out like a cat in undergraduate anatomy.

Flesher gestalt, limited by anatomy, was much more subdued than the polis versions, but ve thought ve could detect a growing number of faces expressing consternation.

She became so skilful that she was made the prosector of anatomy, that is, one who prepares bodies for demonstration by the professors.

The comment came from Professor Schorn, an authority on comparative anatomy, who had arrived from Stuttgart a few days before.

It was, so people said, the work of an erstwhile veterinary surgeon, and showed a number of life-size horses in a meadow, fantastic horses, blue, violet, and pink, whose astonishing anatomy transpierced their sides.

He was worried about the exact anatomy of incubi and succubi, and he worried if it was proper to take communion on Friday since, by the unquestionable doctrine of transubstantiation, the baked wheat flour of the Host and the wine, after being taken, were transmuted into the body and blood of Christ.

He had frequently illustrated his verses with drawings, in which an unperfect anatomy did not altogether hide extreme beauty of feeling.

Played on the stops of their anatomy As is the mewling music on the strings Of yonder ship-masts by the unweeting wind, Or the frail tune upon this withering sedge That holds its papery blades against the gale?

Lord would stirre up the hearts of some or other of his people in England to give some maintenance toward some Schoole or Collegiate exercise this way, wherein there should be Anatomies and other instructions that way, and where there might be some recompence given to any that should bring in any vegetable or other thing that is vertuous in the way of Physick.

A sudden, startling white-light image showed living, breathing Siamese twins, impossibly transected to expose raw pink-and-gray muscles working side-by-side with shape-memory alloys and piezoelectric actuators, flesher and gleisner anatomies interpenetrating.