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Word: Anatomy
Speech Type: Noun
late Middle English: from Old French anatomie or late Latin anatomia, from Greek, from ana- ‘up’ + tomia ‘cutting’ (from temnein ‘to cut’)
əˈnatəmi
the branch of science concerned with the bodily structure of humans, animals, and other living organisms, especially as revealed by dissection and the separation of parts
Short Definition:study of the body
Examples:- he studied physiology and anatomy
- human anatomy
a study of the structure or internal workings of something
Short Definition:study of something's structure
Examples:- a detailed anatomy of a society and its institutions
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