anatomya‧nat‧o‧my /əˈnætəmi/ ●○○ noun (plural anatomies) 
a professor of anatomyhuman/animal anatomy Knowledge of human anatomy is essential to figure drawing.2[countable usually singular] the structure of a body, or of a part of a bodyanatomy of the anatomy of the nervous system3[countable] your body – often used in a humorous way: You could see a part of his anatomy that I’d rather not mention.4the/an anatomy of something a)a study or examination of an organization, process etc in order to understand and explain how it works: Elkind’s book is an anatomy of one man’s discussion with his son about life. b)the structure of an organization, process etc or the way it works: For the first time, we have the chance to examine the anatomy of a secret government operation.
WORD ORIGINanatomy
Origin:
1300-1400 Late Latin anatomia ‘cutting up a body’, from Greek anatome, from anatemnein ‘to cut up’EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- And fewer than 10 % of shoe salespeople have had even basic training in foot anatomy or shoe sizing.
- As well as medical preparations, it contained a great deal of comparative anatomy, including fossils.
- He became assistant to the Professor and demonstrator of anatomy, at £25 perannum, plus coals for his sitting room.
- She read Victorian novels and studied textbooks of anatomy.
- This book is not an analysis of that anatomy.
- We unfolded them carefully, spread them out gently, and studied their anatomy.
WORD SETS
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Knowledge of human anatomy is essential to figure drawing.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
Knowledge of human anatomy is essential to figure drawing.· 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 was more caution about using mankind.· Owen was also put in charge of the College's museum, an important source of specimens for comparative anatomy.· But the early debates were conducted almost entirely in terms of comparative anatomy and paleontology.
· And the ear is not the only sensitive part of the human anatomy which Cloverleaf is designed to appeal to.· Departures from normal human anatomy were marked in red.· A vulnerable part of the human anatomy.· Such were Victor Frankenstein's perfectionist obsessions in relation to human anatomy, when he began his investigations into the nature of life.· Diogenes backed up his theory of the importance of air circulating through the body with some primitive human anatomy.
NOUN· It was a book of animal anatomy.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
1[uncountable] the scientific study of the structure of human or animal bodies: - Elkind's book is an anatomy of one man's discussion with his son about life.
- For the first time, we have a chance to examine the anatomy of a secret government operation.
- First, the anatomy of an ice dam; how it happens and why.
- Her best-known work concerned the anatomy of seedlings.
- It is hard to work out the anatomy of the brain.
- Many such debatable questions raised by the anatomy of these creatures still await universally agreed answers.
- These high rates reflect the anatomy of the cervical spine and the dynamic forces that act on it.
- This is now widely accepted, but Mr.X, strangely, never pursued it further with reference to the anatomy of the individual golfer.
a professor of anatomyhuman/animal anatomy Knowledge of human anatomy is essential to figure drawing.2[countable usually singular] the structure of a body, or of a part of a bodyanatomy of the anatomy of the nervous system3[countable] your body – often used in a humorous way: You could see a part of his anatomy that I’d rather not mention.4the/an anatomy of something a)a study or examination of an organization, process etc in order to understand and explain how it works: Elkind’s book is an anatomy of one man’s discussion with his son about life. b)the structure of an organization, process etc or the way it works: For the first time, we have the chance to examine the anatomy of a secret government operation.