anatomist

noun

anat·o·mist ə-ˈna-tə-mist

: a specialist in anatomy

: one who analyzes minutely and critically

an anatomist of urban society

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Sadly, his friends sold his body to a wealthy surgeon and anatomist (John Hunter) who made Byrne’s skeleton the centerpiece of his collection. —

Ryan Craig, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023 As efforts to attract donors who would pledge their eyes at death spread in the 1940s and early 1950s, so too did a new problem for anatomists: a decline in the number of unclaimed bodies. —

Susan Lawrence, Fortune, 10 Mar. 2023 Though the young man’s companions tried to fulfill his wishes, an anatomist named John Hunter thwarted these plans, reportedly paying someone £500 to open Byrne’s coffin and replace his remains with a heavy weight. —

Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Jan. 2023 In August 1891, laborers working for the Dutch anatomist Eugène Dubois began excavating trenches along a steep riverbank on the Indonesian island of Java. —

Douglas Fox, Discover Magazine, 20 Aug. 2018 Whilst Colombo was an extremely accomplished and successful anatomist, contemporary professional rivalry probably encouraged exaggerated claims of priority. —

Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2011 The Philadelphia museum hopes to provide a formal burial to 13 Black Philadelphians whose remains were used by a 19th century anatomist to formulate racist theories. —

Remy Tumin, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2022 Comparative anatomist Thomas Henry Huxley, for example, noticed similarities in the body plans of dinosaurs and birds as early as the 1860s. —

Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 19 Apr. 2017 Instead, John Hunter, an 18th-century British surgeon and anatomist, paid Byrne’s friends 500 pounds for his skeleton, which joined hundreds of plant and animal specimens on display in Hunter’s home in London’s Leicester Square. —

Claire Moses, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2023 See More

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