zootomicadj.
/ˌzuː(ə)ˈtɒmɪk/, /ˌzəʊəˈtɒmɪk/, U.S. /ˌzu(ə)ˈtɑmɪk/, /ˌzoʊəˈtɑmɪk/ Now historical and rare.
Of or relating to zootomy; = zootomical adj.
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the world > animals > zoology > [adjective] > relating to anatomy or dissection
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1801 Anti-Jacobin Rev. & Mag. Dec. 464 The second treatise, on the method of comparative Anatomy and Physiology, is followed by remarks on a Literary Zootomic Rarity.
1844 Veterinarian 17 205 I directed my attention to it in making some recent zootomic investigations.
1896 Jrnl. Compar. Neurol. 6 279 Extrinsic toponyms.., e.g. posterior and anterior, superior and inferior, and their derivatives, compounds, and abbreviations, should have significations zoötomic rather than anthropotomic.
1913 E. Schleussner tr. A. Strindberg Red Room xxvi. 294 One of our younger distinguished medical men has, while engaged in zootomic research on the skerries near Stockholm, discovered a new species of the family Clypeaster.
1970 Hist. Med. Educ. (UCLA Forum Med. Sci.) 295 Boeck..founded both the zootomic museum and the physiological collection.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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