the branch of biology or medicine that deals with the structure of people, animals, and plants
the process of separating the parts of people, animals, and plants in order to ascertain their position, relations, structure, and function; dissection
structural make-up, esp of an organism or part of it
a detailed analysis of any kind
The anatomy of British society
informal the human body
anatomical adj
anatomically adv
anatomist noun
[Middle English via French and late Latin from Greek anatomē dissection, from anatemnein to dissect, from ana- + temnein to cut]