Definizione monolingua

anatomy

anatomy (plural anatomies)

1. The art of studying the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dissection.
2. The science that deals with the form and structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure or organization.
   • Dryden

   Let the muscles be well inserted and bound together, according to the knowledge of them which is given us by anatomy.

   • Animal anatomy is also called zomy or zootomy; vegetable anatomy, phytotomy; and human anatomy, anthropotomy.

   Comparative anatomy compares the structure of different kinds and classes of animals.

3. A treatise or book on anatomy.
4. The act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts; analysis; as, the anatomy of a discourse.
5. (colloquial) The form of an individual, particularly a person, used in a tongue in cheek manner, as might be a term used by a medical professional, but in a markedly a less formal context, in which a touch of irony becomes apparent.

   ""I went to the Venice beach body building competition and noticed the competitor from Athen, and boy oh boy lemme tell ya, thats what a call classic Greek anatomy.""

6. (archaic) A skeleton, or dead body.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 68:

     So did the Ægyptians, who in the middest of their banquetings, and in the full of their greatest cheere, caused the anatomie of a dead man to be brought before them, as a memorandum and warning to their guests.

Definizione dizionario anatomy

	anatomia
	The science concerned with the physical structure of animals and plants. (Source: CED)

anatomìa

morfologia

struttura

Altri significati:

The act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts; analysis; as, the anatomy of a discourse.

A treatise or book on anatomy.

(colloquial) The form of an individual, particularly a person, used in a tongue in cheek manner, as might be a term used by a medical professional, but in a markedly a less formal context, in which a touch of irony becomes apparent.

(archaic) A skeleton, or dead body.

The art of studying the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dissection.

The science that deals with the form and structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure or organization.