anatomy

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The science that deals with the form and structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure or organization.

   “Animal anatomy is also called zootomy; vegetable anatomy, phytotomy; and human anatomy, anthropotomy.”

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

2. (countable, uncountable)The study of the parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy.
3. (countable, uncountable)The physical or functional organization of an organism, or part of it.

   “I went to the Venice beach body-building competition and noticed the competitor from Athens, and let me tell you, that's what I call classic Greek anatomy.”

   “The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.”

4. (countable)A treatise or book on anatomy.
5. (colloquial, countable, uncountable)The form of an individual.
6. (countable, euphemistic, uncountable)The human body, especially in reference to the genitals.

   “His extraordinary suggestion is that the future PM inserted a private part of his anatomy into the animal's mouth.”

   “On the debate stage days later, Trump wanted all of America to know there was "no problem" with the size of his hands — or any other part of his anatomy.”

7. (archaic, countable)A skeleton or other dead body.

   “So did the Ægyptians, who in the middest of their banquetings, and in the full of their greatest cheere, caused the anatomy of a dead man to be brought before them, as a memorandum and warning to their guests.”

8. (broadly, countable, uncountable)The act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts.

   “the anatomy of a discourse”

   “the anatomy of love”

   “Burton's famous treatise, "The Anatomy of Melancholy"”