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anatomist en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /əˈnæt.ə.mɪst/ (UK)
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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂en- Proto-Hellenic *aná Ancient Greek ᾰ̓νᾰ́ (ănắ) Ancient Greek ἀνα- (ana-) Proto-Indo-European *temh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Ancient Greek τέμνω (témnō) Ancient Greek ἀνατέμνω (anatémnō) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-ā́ Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā) Ancient Greek -η (-ē) Ancient Greek ἀνατομή (anatomḗ) Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin anatomiader. Old French anatomiebor. Middle English anatomie English anatomy Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English anatomist From anatomy + -ist.

Meanings

1. One who studies, teaches, writes on, or does research on anatomy and anatomical structures.
   • A plant anatomist receiving such samples can remove pickled wood and bark for anatomical study, then dry the remaining portions for inclusion in a xylarium. 1996, Tod F. Stuessy, S. H. Sohmer, Sampling the Green World: Innovative Concepts of Collection, Preservation, and Storage of Plant Diversity:
   • Gall's science of “bump reading” would ultimately be abandoned as much for its fixation on social categories as for an inability within the scientific community to replicate its findings. These scientific failings would be exposed by anatomists like Paul Broca (1861) and Carl Wernicke (1874) who pioneered the alternative neuroscientific method of lesion–symptom mapping. 2018 September 14, O. Parker Jones, F. Alfaro-Almagro, S. Jbabdi, “An empirical, 21st century evaluation of phrenology”, in Cortex, volume 106, pages 26–35:
   • But we can no longer regard the mere fact of these diffuse condensations of the lung becoming yellow and caseous as an evidence of their tuberculous nature, especially since the pathological anatomists, and among them Virchow, have shown that formations of the most different kind, having not the slightest connection with tubercule— as, for example, old cancerous masses, lymphatic glands swollen by a hyperplasia of cells, hæmorrhagical infarctions, abscesses, &c.— undergo exactly the same caseous transformation. 1868, Felix von Niemeyer, J. L Parke, Clinical Lectures on Pulmonary Phthisis, Moorhead, Simpson & Bond, page 3:

Forms

Deriveds

pathoanatomist · neuroanatomist · histoanatomist · microanatomist

Translations (24)

de Anatom (one involved in the science of anatomical structures) · fi anatomi (one involved in the science of anatomical structures) · ar مُشَرِّح (one involved in the science of anatomical structures) · pt anatomista (one involved in the science of anatomical structures) · sh anàtōm (one involved in the science of anatomical structures) · lv anatom (one involved in the science of anatomical structures) · la anatomicus (one involved in the science of anatomical structures) · nb anatom (one involved in the science of anatomical structures) · cs anatom (one involved in the science of anatomical structures) · mk анатом (one involved in the science of anatomical structures) · tr anatomist (one involved in the science of anatomical structures) · eo anatomiisto (one involved in the science of anatomical structures) · nn anatom (one involved in the science of anatomical structures) · ro anatomist (one involved in the science of anatomical structures) · ga anatamaí (one involved in the science of anatomical structures) · ar مُشَرِّحَة (one involved in the science of anatomical structures) · ja 解剖学者 (one involved in the science of anatomical structures) · ro anatomistă (one involved in the science of anatomical structures) · hu anatómus (one involved in the science of anatomical structures) · da anatom (one involved in the science of anatomical structures) · sh ана̀то̄м (one involved in the science of anatomical structures) · pl anatom (one involved in the science of anatomical structures) · eo anatomo (one involved in the science of anatomical structures) · lv anatome (one involved in the science of anatomical structures)