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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Anatomist Louis Pierre Gratiolet opposed the idea that there could exist a specific area responsible for speech, arguing that the brain functions as a whole.
From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021
Anatomist Nikos Solounias and colleagues found the long lost piggies.
From Scientific American • Mar. 24, 2018
Anatomist Christopher Dean of University College London first calculated the age of the child—probably a boy, given the robustness of its bones—at death by counting daily growth lines in slices of one of his molars.
From Science Magazine • Sep. 21, 2017
He had read my book, The Anatomist, in proof, and enjoyed it.
From The Guardian • Mar. 26, 2017
There are not more than four or five offices in London which a Zoologist or Comparative Anatomist can hold and live by.
From Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 by Huxley, Thomas Henry
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