anatomist

[ uh-nat-uh-mist ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a specialist in anatomy.
a person who analyzes all the parts or elements of something with particular care:
an anatomist of public-school systems and their problems.

anatomist

/ əˈnætəmɪst /

1560–70; anatom(y) + -ist or < Middle French anatomiste

As a comparative anatomist, MacLean viewed animal behaviors as evolutionary adaptations of the brain.

William Hewson died; an eminent English anatomist, and medical author.

John Bell, the distinguished anatomist of Scotland, was born at Edinburgh.

Among them was William Cowper, not a kinsman of the defendant, but the most celebrated anatomist that England had then produced.

These singularities were worthy the attention of so able an anatomist as M. Sarrasin.

He was no anatomist, no physiologist, but rather what nowadays we should call a pharmacologist.

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