| anatomy | |
| 1. n. The art of studying the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dissection. | |
| 2. n. The science that deals with the form and structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure or organization. | |
| Animal anatomy is also called zootomy; vegetable anatomy, phytotomy; and human anatomy, anthropotomy. | |
| 3. n. A treatise or book on anatomy. | |
| 4. n. The act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts; analysis. | |
| the anatomy of a discourse | |
| Burton's famous treatise, "The Anatomy of Melancholy". | |
| 5. n. (colloquial) The form of an individual. | |
| 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. | |
| 6. n. (archaic) A skeleton, or dead body. | |
| 7. n. The physical or functional organization of an organism, or part of it. | |
