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anatomist

[ uh-nat-uh-mist ]

noun

  1. a specialist in anatomy.
  2. a person who analyzes all the parts or elements of something with particular care:

    an anatomist of public-school systems and their problems.



anatomist

/ əˈnætəmɪst /

noun

  1. an expert in anatomy
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of anatomist1

1560–70; anatom(y) + -ist or < Middle French anatomiste
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Example Sentences

Joy Reidenberg, a comparative anatomist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York who was not involved with the research, says she has “serious reservations” about some of the evidence presented in the study.

Dart was an anatomist at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Based on the child’s blend of humanlike and apelike features, an anatomist determined that the fossil was what was then popularly known as a “missing link.”

“The last time we had a change of this magnitude was when the Flexner Report came out,” says Jonathan Wisco, an anatomist who teaches at Boston and Northeastern Universities.

Anatomists had identified nerve cells, or neurons, as key components of the brain and nervous system.

As a comparative anatomist, MacLean viewed animal behaviors as evolutionary adaptations of the brain.

William Hewson died; an eminent English anatomist, and medical author.

John Bell, the distinguished anatomist of Scotland, was born at Edinburgh.

Among them was William Cowper, not a kinsman of the defendant, but the most celebrated anatomist that England had then produced.

These singularities were worthy the attention of so able an anatomist as M. Sarrasin.

He was no anatomist, no physiologist, but rather what nowadays we should call a pharmacologist.

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