anatomist
Americannoun
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a specialist in anatomy.
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a person who analyzes all the parts or elements of something with particular care.
an anatomist of public-school systems and their problems.
noun
Etymology
Origin of anatomist
Example Sentences
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Nicknamed “Little” for her stature, the child finds employment in the household of a shy anatomist whose trade is making wax replicas of human body parts.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
However, French anatomist Claude Perrault had already drawn a much more accurate representation in 1669, showing two optic nerves that crossed and then continued straight.
From Science Daily • Nov. 19, 2025
It was one of three species for which the overarching term dinosauria was later coined in 1842 by the anatomist Richard Owen.
From BBC • Feb. 20, 2024
In a 1894 bid to determine if exhumed human remains discovered in a German churchyard were really Bach’s, German anatomist Wilhelm His attempted to reconstruct the composer’s face.
From National Geographic • Oct. 23, 2023
An early example of someone evidently confident in his understanding of how the rules worked is the anatomist Gabriele Falloppio.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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