anatomist

[ uh-nat-uh-mist ]

/ əˈnæt ə mɪst /

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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.

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Origin of anatomist

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

Words nearby anatomist

Anatolic, anatomical, anatomically correct, anatomical pathology, anatomical snuffbox, anatomist, anatomize, anatomy, anatoxin, anatropous, anatta

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How to use anatomist in a sentence

Joy Reidenberg, a comparative anatomist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York who was not involved with the research, says she has “serious reservations” about some of the evidence presented in the study.
Baleen whales have an ‘oral plug’ to help them guzzle down food without choking|Kate Baggaley|January 24, 2022|Popular-Science
Dart was an anatomist at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.
The ultimate genealogical search hunts for our earliest ancestors|Erin Wayman|December 2, 2021|Science News For Students
Based on the child’s blend of humanlike and apelike features, an anatomist determined that the fossil was what was then popularly known as a “missing link.”
Fossils and ancient DNA paint a vibrant picture of human origins|Erin Wayman|September 15, 2021|Science News
“The last time we had a change of this magnitude was when the Flexner Report came out,” says Jonathan Wisco, an anatomist who teaches at Boston and Northeastern Universities.
You Can’t Dissect a Virtual Cadaver - Issue 99: Universality|Michael Denham|May 5, 2021|Nautilus

Anatomists had identified nerve cells, or neurons, as key components of the brain and nervous system.
Three visions of the future, inspired by neuroscience’s past and present|Laura Sanders|March 3, 2021|Science News
As a comparative anatomist, MacLean viewed animal behaviors as evolutionary adaptations of the brain.
Why Do We Cry?|Michael Trimble|January 10, 2013|DAILY BEAST
William Hewson died; an eminent English anatomist, and medical author.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
John Bell, the distinguished anatomist of Scotland, was born at Edinburgh.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
Among them was William Cowper, not a kinsman of the defendant, but the most celebrated anatomist that England had then produced.
The History of England from the Accession of James II.|Thomas Babington Macaulay
These singularities were worthy the attention of so able an anatomist as M. Sarrasin.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume VII (of 10)|Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
He was no anatomist, no physiologist, but rather what nowadays we should call a pharmacologist.
Old-Time Makers of Medicine|James J. Walsh

British Dictionary definitions for anatomist

anatomist

/ (əˈnætəmɪst) /

noun

an expert in anatomy

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