applied anatomy

[ ə-plīd′ ]

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The application of anatomical knowledge to the diagnosis and treatment of disease.

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They should have pointed the nose of the Airbus down and applied more power.
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The goal is to create a literary anatomy of the last century—or, to be precise, from 1900 to 2014.
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Elauf, who is Muslim, had applied for a job at an A&F store in Tulsa, Oklahoma when she was 17.
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Last year, according to The New York Times, one student applied to nearly 90 colleges.
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The committee recommended a single—and simple—principle be applied to the law, that of consent.
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After the battle of the Pyramids he fell sick, and before the Syrian expedition, applied to return to France.
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But if you restrict it, to the sense in which it is commonly applied to the angelic sex, I am not prepared to answer.
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It is usually applied only where there is a natural suggestiveness between each pair of words.
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The word mistranslated “greater,” πλεῖον, is neuter and cannot be applied to a man.
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It began with certain postulates, or assumptions, to a great extent unconscious, of the conditions to which it applied.
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