(abbreviation anat.)

source: By artist unknown - The book "Qvinnans kropp", Swedish edition of a German book by Dr. G Panzer. Stockholm, Svanbäcks Boktryckeri 1897, Public Domain

noun (plural anatomies)

1. the branch of science concerned with the bodily structure of humans, animals, and other living organisms, especially as revealed by dissection and the separation of parts.

(人間･動植物の)解剖学

the bodily structure of an organism:

〖通例the ～〗 (身体･動植物の)解剖学的構造［組織, 形態］; (一般に)構造, 仕組み; 細部

e.g. descriptions of the cat's anatomy and behavior.

informal a person's body:

｟おどけて｠ ; 〖通例one's ～〗 人体, 体.

e.g. every part of his anatomy hurt

e.g. people should never be reduced to their anatomies.

2. a study of the structure or internal workings of something:

〖単数形で〗分析(analysis), (綿密な)調査; (人間･動植物の)解剖［体］

e.g. Machiavelli's anatomy of the art of war.

late Middle English: from Old French anatomie or late Latin anatomia, from Greek, from ana- ‘up’ + tomia ‘cutting’ (from temnein ‘to cut’).