anatomy

Meaning

Noun

• The art of studying the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy.
• The science that deals with the form and 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.
• The form of an individual.
• The human body, especially in reference to the private parts.
• A skeleton, or dead body.
• The physical or functional organization of an organism, or part of it.

Origin

• From French anatomie, from Latin anatomia, from Ancient Greek *ἀνατομία, from ἀνατομή, from ἀνά + τέμνω (surface analysis ana- + -tomy), literally “cut up”. ottomy.