Word Meanings - ANATOMY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The art of dissecting, or artificially separating the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dissection. 2. The science which treats of the structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure

Additional info about word: ANATOMY

1. The art of dissecting, or artificially separating the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dissection. 2. The science which treats of the structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure or organization. Let the muscles be well inserted and bound together, according to the knowledge of them which is given us by anatomy. Dryden. Note: "Animal anatomy" is sometimes called zomy; "vegetable anatomy," phytotomy; "human anatomy," anthropotomy. Comparative anatomy compares the structure of different kinds and classes of animals. 3. A treatise or book on anatomy. 4. The act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts; analysis; as, the anatomy of a discourse. 5. A skeleton; anything anatomized or dissected, or which has the appearance of being so. The anatomy of a little child, representing all parts thereof, is accounted a greater rarity than the skeleton of a man in full stature. Fuller. They brought one Pinch, a hungry, lean-faced villain, A mere anatomy. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ANATOMY)

• Analysis
• Dissection
• separation
• anatomy
• segregation
• decomposition
• resolution
• partition

Related words: (words related to ANATOMY)

• RESOLUTIONER
  One who makes a resolution; one who joins with others in a declaration or resolution; specifically, one of a party in the Scottish Church in the 17th century. He was sequestrated afterwards as a Resolutioner. Sir W. Scott.
• DECOMPOSITION
  1. The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of
• RESOLUTIONIST
  One who makes a resolution.
• RESOLUTION
  The act or process of solving; solution; as, the resolution of an equation or problem. (more info) 1. The act, operation, or process of resolving. Specifically: The act of separating a compound into its elements or component parts. The act of
• ANALYSIS
  The separation of a compound substance, by chemical processes, into its constituents, with a view to ascertain either what elements it contains, or how much of each element is present. The former is called qualitative, and the latter
• DISSECTION
  1. The act of dissecting an animal or plant; as, dissection of the human body was held sacrilege till the time of Francis I. 2. Fig.: The act of separating or dividing for the purpose of critical examination. 3. Anything dissected; especially,
• ANATOMY
  1. The art of dissecting, or artificially separating the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dissection. 2. The science which treats of the structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure
• SEGREGATION
  Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive attraction or the crystallizing process. (more info) 1. The act of segregating, or the state of being segregated; separation from others; a parting.
• PARTITION
  The servance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law. (more info) 1. The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; separation; division;
• PARTITIONMENT
  The act of partitioning.
• SEPARATION
  The act of separating, or the state of being separated, or separate. Specifically: Chemical analysis. Divorce. The operation of removing water from steam. Judicial separation , a form of divorce; a separation of man and wife which has the effect
• MICROANALYSIS
  Analysis of the structure of materials from careful observation of photomicrographs.
• QUADRIPARTITION
  A division or distribution by four, or into four parts; also, a taking the fourth part of any quantity or number.
• BIPARTITION
  The act of dividing into two parts, or of making two correspondent parts, or the state of being so divided.
• PSYCHANALYSIS
  A method or process of psychotherapeutic analysis based on the work of Dr. Sigmund Freud of Vienna. The method rests upon the theory that hysteria is characteristically due to repression of desires consciously rejected but subconsciously
• PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOANALYTIC
  = Psychanalysis, Psychanalytic.
• COMPARTITION
  The act of dividing into parts or compartments; division; also, a division or compartment. Their temples . . . needed no compartitions. Sir H. Wotton.
• TRIPARTITION
  A division by threes, or into three parts; the taking of a third part of any number or quantity.
• IRRESOLUTION
  Want of resolution; want of decision in purpose; a fluctuation of mind, as in doubt, or between hope and fear; irresoluteness; indecision; vacillation. Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in
• ANDRANATOMY
  The dissection of a human body, especially of a male; androtomy. Coxe.