anatomist
noun
anat·o·mist
ə-ˈna-tə-mist 
1
: a specialist in anatomy
2
: one who analyzes minutely and critically
an anatomist of urban society
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According to a statement by its owner, the binding was commissioned in 1682 by an Italian doctor and anatomist identified as Jacopo X, and has been kept by his descendants ever since.
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Julia Jacobs, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2024
Only a decade after the anatomist Duchenne de Boulogne’s produced the first neurology text illustrated by photographs, Darwin claimed to be the first to use photographs in a scientific publication to actually document the expressive spectrum of the face.
—Jessica Helfand, Scientific American, 13 Aug. 2020
Edwin Dickinson, an anatomist at the New York Institute of Technology and a co-author of the study, says the researchers are particularly interested in the surprising solutions animals come up with to move around in different environments.
—Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2024
Image does not show actual bird species Dominique Homberger, a comparative anatomist at Louisiana State University, told USA TODAY that the bird in the image doesn't exist.
—USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2024
German anatomist Carl Bergmann theorized in 1847 that animals of similar species tend to be larger in cold climates.
—Max G. Levy, WIRED, 6 Jan. 2024
Many of our major writers are earnest anatomists of discontent and its social, psychological, and existential causes.
—Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2023
Pauley was also online pals with a Kentucky man named James Nott, who in his Facebook messages to Pauley went by the name William Burke — a grisly nod to a murderer from the 1800s who sold his victims’ corpses to Scottish anatomist Robert Knox for dissection demonstrations.
—Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2023
Medical anatomists studied semicircular canals in the sixteenth century by cutting open cadavers and drawing their insides, but doctors didn’t gain a deeper understanding of the vestibular system until the nineteenth century.
—Shayla Love, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2023
Julia Jacobs, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2024
Only a decade after the anatomist Duchenne de Boulogne’s produced the first neurology text illustrated by photographs, Darwin claimed to be the first to use photographs in a scientific publication to actually document the expressive spectrum of the face.
—Jessica Helfand, Scientific American, 13 Aug. 2020
Edwin Dickinson, an anatomist at the New York Institute of Technology and a co-author of the study, says the researchers are particularly interested in the surprising solutions animals come up with to move around in different environments.
—Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2024
Image does not show actual bird species Dominique Homberger, a comparative anatomist at Louisiana State University, told USA TODAY that the bird in the image doesn't exist.
—USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2024
German anatomist Carl Bergmann theorized in 1847 that animals of similar species tend to be larger in cold climates.
—Max G. Levy, WIRED, 6 Jan. 2024
Many of our major writers are earnest anatomists of discontent and its social, psychological, and existential causes.
—Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2023
Pauley was also online pals with a Kentucky man named James Nott, who in his Facebook messages to Pauley went by the name William Burke — a grisly nod to a murderer from the 1800s who sold his victims’ corpses to Scottish anatomist Robert Knox for dissection demonstrations.
—Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2023
Medical anatomists studied semicircular canals in the sixteenth century by cutting open cadavers and drawing their insides, but doctors didn’t gain a deeper understanding of the vestibular system until the nineteenth century.
—Shayla Love, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2023
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anatomist
noun
anat·o·mist
ə-ˈnat-ə-məst
: a specialist in anatomy
Medical Definition
anatomist
noun
anat·o·mist
ə-ˈnat-ə-məst
: a specialist in anatomy
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