anatomy

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) The art of studying the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy.
2. (countable, uncountable) The science that deals with the form and structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure or organization.
3. (countable) A treatise or book on anatomy.
4. (broadly, countable, uncountable) The act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts.
5. (colloquial, countable, uncountable) The form of an individual.
6. (countable, euphemistic, uncountable) The human body, especially in reference to the private parts.
7. (archaic, countable, uncountable) A skeleton, or dead body.
8. (countable, uncountable) The physical or functional organization of an organism, or part of it.

Synonyms

figure

frame

form

soma

human body

shape

physique

material body

body

build

chassis

flesh

🥩

physical body

general anatomy

bod

corporeal frame

body structure

habitus

dissection

anat.

bodily structure

body-build

Translations

anatomie

anatomía

Anatomie

anatomia

anatomia

ανατομία

anatomie

anatomia

anatomia

anatomi

ontleedkunde

yapıbilim

carn

🥩

corps

Pronounced as (IPA)

/əˈnæt.ə.mi/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: anatomie

In summary

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.