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To discriminate minutely or carefully; to analyze. If we anatomize all other reasonings of this nature, we shall find that they are founded on the relation of cause and effect. Hume.

A dissector.

The science which treats of the structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure or organization. Let the muscles be well inserted and bound together, according to the knowledge of them which is given us by anatomy. Dryden.

The dissection of a human body, especially of a male; androtomy. Coxe.

Having the filaments of the stamens divided into two parts.

Dissection of the human body, as distinguished from zoötomy; anthropotomy. [R.]

Same as Angiology, Angiotomy, etc.

With a narrow mouth, as the shell of certain gastropods.

Dissection of the blood vessels and lymphatics of the body. Dunglison.

A disease due to the presence of the parasites Agchylostoma duodenale, Uncinaria (subgenus Necator) americana, or allied nematodes, in the small intestine. When present in large numbers they produce a severe anæmia by sucking the blood from the intestinal walls. Called also miner's anæmia, tunnel disease, brickmaker's…

A cavity which leads into the stomach, as in birds. Ray.

Pertaining to anthropotomy, or the dissection of human bodies.

One who is versed in anthropotomy, or human anatomy.

The anatomy or dissection of the human body; androtomy. Owen.

Simple incision. Dunglison.

Dissection of aponeuroses.

The difference between two quantities commensurable only in power, as between sq. root2 and 1, or between the diagonal and side of a square.

Excision of the vermiform appendix.

Applied to a gastrula when the blastorope does not entirely up.

That part of anatomy which treats of the dissection of the arteries.