■ noun ( plural anatomies )
1》 the branch of biology and medicine concerned with bodily structure, especially as revealed by dissection.
↘the bodily structure of an organism.
2》 a study of the structure or dynamics of something: a detailed ~ of a society.
Derivatives
anatomist noun
Origin
ME: from OFr. anatomie or late L. anatomia , from Gk, from ana- 'up' + tomia 'cutting'.