A-năt'o-my, n.

n. [Fr. anatomie, Lat. anatomia, Gr. ἀνατομή, dissection, from ἀνατέμνειν, to cut up, from ἀνά, up, and τέμνειν, to cut.]

1. The art of dissecting, or artificially separating the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy.
2. The doctrine of the structure of an organized substance, learned by dissection.

Let the muscles be well inserted and bound together, according to the knowledge of them which is given us by anatomy. Dryden.

3. (Fig.) The act of dividing any thing, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts; as, the anatomy of a discourse.
4. Any thing anatomized or dissected, or which has the appearance of being so; the body stripped of its integuments and muscles; a skeleton.

The anatomy of a little child, representing all parts thereof, is accounted a greater rarity than the skeleton of a man in full stature. Fuller. They brought one Pinch, a hungry, lean-faced villain. Shak. A mere anatomy. Shak.