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anatomist

American  
[uh-nat-uh-mist] / əˈnæt ə mɪst /

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 British  
/ əˈnætəmɪst /

noun

  1. an expert in anatomy

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Etymology

Origin of anatomist

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

Example Sentences

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Other researchers argued it belonged to Australopithecus africanus, a species first described in 1925 by Australian anatomist Raymond Dart and already known from the same region.

From Science Daily

"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.

From Science Daily

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

From BBC

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

From Science Magazine

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.

From Los Angeles Times