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anatomy
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[əˈnatəmi], (Noun)
Definitions:
- 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
(e.g: he studied physiology and anatomy)
- a study of the structure or internal workings of something
(e.g: a detailed anatomy of a society and its institutions)
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Origin
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late Middle English: from Old French anatomie or late Latin anatomia, from Greek anatomē, from ana- ‘up’ + tomē ‘cutting’ (from temnein ‘to cut’)
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