anatomy.

1. The bodily structure of an organism or the study of that structure.

2. An examination showing the parts and organization of a process or event.

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Words that belong together

• human anatomy
• comparative anatomy

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Her knowledge of anatomy made the drawing disturbingly precise.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror / gothic. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common.