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Expert in the structure of human and animal bodies
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anatomist
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. One who studies, teaches, writes on, or does research on anatomy and anatomical structures.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But anatomists and physiologists will not find an ape, or a bull, or for that matter instincts. ▪ Conservative and radical scientific ideas were disseminated from Paris by naturalists and anatomists returning home inspired by ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anatomist \A*nat"o*mist\, n. [Cf. F. anatomiste.] One who is skilled in the art of anatomy, or dissection.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an expert in anatomy
Usage examples of anatomist.
Renaissance anatomist Andreas Vesalius, one enthusiastic spectator at a crowded Vesalius dissection, bent on a better view, leaned too far out and tumbled from his bench to the dissecting platform below.
It was not unheard of for an anatomist to tote freshly deceased family members over to the dissecting chamber for a morning before dropping them off at the churchyard.
I would wager a fine ham and a huge ball of yarn that no anatomist of that era ever held a memorial service for the leftover pieces.
For nearly a century, the shortage of legally dissectable bodies pitted the anatomist against the private citizen.
The great Renaissance anatomist Vesalius later pointed out that there are two hundred anatomical differences between apes and humans in skeletal structure alone.
Uniform Anatomical Gift Act: What Every Clinical Anatomist Should Know.
Jack swept and cleaned glassware and ground herbs to powder, the anatomist saw two dozen more supplicants.
An appointment was made to see him again, for the anatomist valued knowledge above all other things.
The anatomist was a perfectionist, drawing new anatomic charts in ever greater detail.
He had been fired when the anatomist discovered him copying newly made diagrams to sell to other doctors.
The skull resisted, but the anatomist increased his pressure slightly, and Molly felt and heard a fizzing sound as the bone rippled and parted to make way for the metal.
As it was, she snatched only a few hours of rest that night, and was still asleep when the anatomist turned her to face the laboratory in the morning.
The anatomist was still scratching away with his pen when she broke down in sobs.
You are not to tell the anatomist where you come from, you understand?
Berlin, the greatest anatomist and physiologist among my contemporaries, had barely affirmed he had seen a live centaur, I should certainly have been staggered by the weight of an assertion coming from such an authority.