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 A·nat·o·my n.; pl. Anatomies
 1. The art of dissecting, or artificially separating the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dissection.
 2. The science which treats of the structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure or organization.
    Let the muscles be well inserted and bound together, according to the knowledge of them which is given us by anatomy.   --Dryden.
 Note: ☞ “Animal anatomy” is sometimes called zomy; “vegetable anatomy,” phytotomy; “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. A skeleton; anything anatomized or dissected, or which has the appearance of being so.
    The anatomy of a little child, representing all parts thereof, is accounted a greater rarity than the skeleton of a man in full stature.   --Fuller.
 They brought one Pinch, a hungry, lean-faced villain,
 A mere anatomy.   --Shak.
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