All 3 Uses of
anatomy
in
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- But only for a minute—only while he could button the flower inside his jacket, next his heart—or next his stomach, possibly, for he was not much posted in anatomy, and not hypercritical, anyway.†
Chpt 3 *
- The title-page—Professor Somebody's ANATOMY—carried no information to her mind; so she began to turn the leaves.†
Chpt 20
- Poor Huck was too distressed to smile, but the old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying that such a laugh was money in a-man's pocket, because it cut down the doctor's bill like everything.†
Chpt 30
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"