Definition of Anatomy

Anatomy

The art of dissecting, or artificially separating the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dissection.

The science which treats of the structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure or organization.

A treatise or book on anatomy.

The act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts; analysis; as, the anatomy of a discourse.

A skeleton; anything anatomized or dissected, or which has the appearance of being so.

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Anatomy Quotations

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
Walt Disney

Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
Groucho Marx

Anatomy is destiny.
Sigmund Freud

Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.
Erma Bombeck

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
Honore de Balzac

I put a bullet into the back of the crocodile's neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable.
Louis Leakey

At Harvard I was in charge of the comparative anatomy labs.
Robert T. Bakker

So in my sophomore year, I took a senior anatomy class. I thought anatomy - being the thing that I should be most interested in - and if I could hack, as we called it, a senior class, I would continue. I didn't hack the senior class.
James Earl Jones

You're not working with models, you're working with real women who have, like, anatomy. Models do not have anatomy.
Isaac Mizrahi

I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a human guinea pig.
Marilu Henner

The Coyote is limited, as Bugs is limited, by his anatomy.
Chuck Jones

In the 19th century the anatomy of the eye was known in great detail and the sophisticated mechanisms it employs to deliver an accurate picture of the outside world astounded everyone who was familiar with them.
Michael Behe

In my experience of these things, parties which shout about dirty tricks and the like tend to do so because they fear a direct hit in some vulnerable part of their political anatomy.
Peter Mandelson

In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had begun to see that I was interested in cells and their functions.
Sydney Brenner

So, if anatomy is destiny then testosterone is doom.
Al Goldstein

Those early sketches looked too cartoony; I really wanted to do detailed drawings - I was taking anatomy classes - but unfortunately I wasn't able to do it because of the time element.
Joe Shuster

One of the problems with sex education... is that it also strips kids - especially girls - of their modesty to have every detail of anatomy, physiology and condom usage made explicit.
James Dobson

I have always had an abiding interest in that type of female anatomy.
Robert Crumb

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Anatomy Translations

anatomy in French is anatomig, anatomie
anatomy in Swedish is anatomi

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