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

"For Nanotyrannus to be a juvenile T. rex, it would need to defy everything we know about vertebrate growth," explains James Napoli, an anatomist at Stony Brook University and co-author of the research.

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However, the Kaiser Wilhelm research institutes and those anatomists involved were allowed to continue their work.

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Early anatomists mapped the nervous system through dissection, Domingos says.

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Using the bodies of executed people was “a centuries-old practice in anatomy,” preferred because anatomists could time their work swiftly after a scheduled death, said Dr. Sabine Hildebrandt, an anatomy educator at Harvard Medical School.

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In the 1940s, anatomists found evidence that they existed in adult sharks, which evolved some 450 million years ago.

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