English Dictionary

anatomy

/əˈnæt.ə.mi/

noun

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

The anatomy of the human body is complex.

意味（1）

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

意味（2）

The science that deals with the form and 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.

意味（3）

(countable) A treatise or book on anatomy.

意味（4）

(by extension) The act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts.

the anatomy of a discourse

意味（5）

(colloquial) The form of an individual.

I went to the Venice beach body-building competition and noticed the competitor from Athens, and let me tell you, that's what I call classic Greek anatomy.

意味（6）

(euphemistic) The human body, especially in reference to the private parts.

His extraordinary suggestion is that the future PM inserted a private part of his anatomy into the animal's mouth.

意味（7）

(archaic) A skeleton, or dead body.

, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1 p.68:

, 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 anatomy of a dead man to be brought before them, as a memorandum and warning to their guests.

意味（8）

The physical or functional organization of an organism, or part of it.

The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.