anatomical
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Etymology
Origin of anatomical
1580–90; < Late Latin anatomic ( us ) (< Greek anatomikós; see anatomy, -ic) + -al 1
Vocabulary lists containing anatomical
Evolutionary Biology - Natural Selection - Middle School
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Example Sentences
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Not all patients have the right size valve or other anatomical prerequisites.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 25, 2026
That level of detail helped resolve a long-running anatomical debate.
From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2026
The third thought his cell phone was part of his anatomical makeup.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026
Research on both living and fossil lungfish provides important anatomical evidence about how tetrapods evolved.
From Science Daily • Mar. 12, 2026
In 1825, aged just twenty-one, Owen moved to London and soon after was engaged by the Royal College of Surgeons to help organize their extensive, but disordered, collections of medical and anatomical specimens.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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