anatomist

anat·o·mist | \ ə-ˈna-tə-mist

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Definition of anatomist

1 : a specialist in anatomy

2 : one who analyzes minutely and critically an anatomist of urban society

Examples of anatomist in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Grafton Elliot Smith, an anatomist at the Cairo School of Medicine, photographed the royal mummies. — National Geographic, "Europe's morbid 'mummy craze' has been an obsession for centuries," 10 Dec. 2019 Susanna HaywardGetty Images Twenty-two-year-old anatomist Andreas Vesalius stood over the limp body of an 18-year-old Belgian noblewoman. — Sophia Jones, Marie Claire, "A Test With No Answer," 30 Oct. 2019 Such a statement does not diminish the considerable progress neuroscience has made in the more than a century since Italian physician Camillo Golgi and Spanish anatomist Santiago Ramón y Cajal created the first drawings of neurons. — Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, "Scientists Start Building a Parts List for the Brain," 21 Aug. 2019 Writing in 1775, for example, German anatomist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, decided to divide the people of the world into five races. — Patrick Iber, The New Republic, "Pioneers of Cultural Relativism," 14 Aug. 2019 One of those fragments concerns Philip Verheyen, the seventeenth-century Flemish anatomist who gave the Achilles tendon its name. — Ruth Franklin, The New Yorker, "Olga Tokarczuk’s Novels Against Nationalism," 29 July 2019 In a study published in a German scientific journal, anatomist and musician Andreas Otte deduced that Bach—a gifted organist and harpsichordist—had an exceptional reach at the keyboard. — Ines Bellinger, National Geographic, "How Bach’s anatomy may have handed him greatness," 25 July 2019 As a veterinarian, anatomist, and physiologist, Leslie Sprunger has taught small animal anatomy at Washington State University for nearly two decades. — Brian Barrett, WIRED, "A Feline Anatomy Expert Weighs In on That Cats Trailer," 18 July 2019 Anne Burrows, an anatomist at Duquesne University, in Pittsburgh, had studied chimpanzee faces. — James Gorman, New York Times, "Those Puppy Dog Eyes You Can’t Resist? Thank Evolution," 17 June 2019

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“Anatomist.” The Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anatomist. Accessed 18 January 2020.

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