anatomy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂en-
Proto-Hellenic *aná
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓νᾰ́ (ănắ)
Ancient Greek ἀνα- (ana-)
Proto-Indo-European *temh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-né-
Ancient Greek τέμνω (témnō)
Ancient Greek ἀνατέμνω (anatémnō)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek ἀνατομή (anatomḗ)
Ancient Greek *ἀνατομία (*anatomía)bor.
Latin anatomiader.
Old French anatomiebor.
Middle English anatomie
English anatomy
From Middle English anatomie, from Old French anatomie, from Latin anatomia, from Ancient Greek *ἀνατομία (*anatomía), from ἀνατομή (anatomḗ, “dissection”, literally “cutting up”), from ἀνά (aná, “up”) + τέμνω (témnō, “to cut, incise”). By surface analysis, ana- + -tomy. Doublet of ottomy.
Inflected forms:
form: anatomies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The science that deals with the form and structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure or organization.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Animal anatomy is also called zootomy; vegetable anatomy, phytotomy; and human anatomy, anthropotomy.
Let the muscles be well inserted and bound together, according to the knowledge of them which is given us by anatomy.
gloss: The study of the parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The physical or functional organization of an organism, or part of it.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I went to the Venice beach body-building competition and noticed the competitor from Athens, and let me tell you, that's what I call classic Greek anatomy.
The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.
gloss: A treatise or book on anatomy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The form of an individual.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
uncountable
gloss: The human body, especially in reference to the genitals.
pos: noun
tags: countable
euphemistic
uncountable
examples: His extraordinary suggestion is that the future PM inserted a private part of his anatomy into the animal's mouth.
On the debate stage days later, Trump wanted all of America to know there was "no problem" with the size of his hands — or any other part of his anatomy.
gloss: A skeleton or other dead body.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
examples: So did the Ægyptians, who in the middest of their banquetings, and in the full of their greatest cheere, caused the anatomy of a dead man to be brought before them, as a memorandum and warning to their guests.
gloss: The act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
examples: the anatomy of a discourse
the anatomy of love
Burton's famous treatise, "The Anatomy of Melancholy"
Related words: phytotomy
zootomy
Derived words: anatomic
anatomical
anatomically correct
anatomiless
anatomise
anatomism
anatomist
anatomize
eigenanatomy
histoanatomy
morphoanatomy
myoanatomy
neuroanatomy
pathoanatomy
sonoanatomy
xenonatomy
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