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

Word History and Origins

Origin of anatomist¹

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

Example Sentences

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

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

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

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

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