sar·col·o·gy
| \ särˈkäləjē \
plural -es
Definition of sarcology
1
archaic
: the anatomy of the soft parts
—distinguished from osteology
2
: a theory that a part of the animal body taken into the human system nourishes or affects a corresponding part — compare doctrine of signatures , organotherapy
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