noun a treatise or book on anatomy.
2. anatomy ·noun a skeleton; anything anatomized or dissected, or which has the appearance of being so.
3. anatomy ·noun the science which treats of the structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure or organization.
4. anatomy ·noun the act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts; analysis; as, the anatomy of a discourse.
5. anatomy ·noun the art of dissecting, or artificially separating the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dissection.