anatomist

[ uh-nat-uh-mist ]

/ əˈnæt ə mɪst /

noun

a specialist in anatomy.

a person who analyzes all the parts or elements of something with particular care: an anatomist of public-school systems and their problems.

Words nearby anatomist

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Origin of anatomist

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

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Examples from the Web for anatomist

Three years afterwards he married again, Agnes Huschke, daughter of a Jena anatomist.
Major Prophets of To-Day|Edwin E. Slosson
But there is hardly an anatomist or an anthropologist who has not had his say upon this regrettably very incomplete remnant.
The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia|Frank Evers Beddard
Alexander Monroe, a Scottish physician, anatomist and writer, died.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
As great, if not greater, than either as an anatomist was Eustachius, to whom we owe a series of important discoveries.
The Century of Columbus|James J. Walsh

Had an anatomist been ordered to prepare the skeleton for a museum, he could not have cleaned it more effectually.
The Boy Hunters|Captain Mayne Reid

British Dictionary definitions for anatomist

anatomist

/ (əˈnætəmɪst) /

noun

an expert in anatomy

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Medical definitions for anatomist

anatomist

[ ə-năt′ə-mĭst ]

n.

An expert in or a student of anatomy.