All 5 Uses of
anatomy
in
Middlemarch
- "—BURTON'S Anatomy of Melancholy, P. I, s. 2.†
Chpt 1
- The page he opened on was under the head of Anatomy, and the first passage that drew his eyes was on the valves of the heart.†
Chpt 2 *
- I am thinking of a great fellow, who was about as old as I am three hundred years ago, and had already begun a new era in anatomy.†
Chpt 5
- "We used to play at guessing historical characters at Mrs. Lemon's, but not anatomists."†
Chpt 5
- And the only way he could get to know anatomy as he did, was by going to snatch bodies at night, from graveyards and places of execution.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(anatomy) the medical study of the structure of the body -- as in "to study anatomy"
or more rarely: the structure of a body -- as in "a part of the anatomy"
or still more rarely: any detailed analysis -- as in "anatomy of the disaster"