ANATOMY

noun (plural -mies) Etymology: Late Latin anatomia dissection, from Greek anatomē, from anatemnein to dissect, from ana- + temnein to cut Date: 14th century a branch of morphology that deals with the structure of organisms, a treatise on anatomical science or art, the art of separating the parts of an organism in order to ascertain their position, relations, structure, and function ; dissection , a body dissected or to be dissected, structural makeup especially of an organism or any of its parts, a separating or dividing into parts for detailed examination ; analysis , 7. a. skeleton , mummy , the human body, anatomical or anatomic adjective anatomically adverb