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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
Examples of anatomist in a Sentence
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But this brief explanation remains uncorroborated, and there is another theory about the artifact’s origin: Some say it was donated by the anatomist Grafton Elliot Smith, one of the 20th century’s most prominent Egyptologists.
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Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2024
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.
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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.
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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.
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USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2024
German anatomist Carl Bergmann theorized in 1847 that animals of similar species tend to be larger in cold climates.
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Max G. Levy, WIRED, 6 Jan. 2024
Many of our major writers are earnest anatomists of discontent and its social, psychological, and existential causes.
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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.
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Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1543, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Anatomist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anatomist. Accessed 15 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
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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