All 3 Uses of
anatomy
in
The War of the Worlds
- — KEPLER (quoted in The Anatomy of Melancholy) BOOK ONE THE COMING OF THE MARTIANS CHAPTER ONE THE EVE OF THE WAR No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient…†
Chpt 1.1
- These bunches have since been named rather aptly, by that distinguished anatomist, Professor Howes, the hands.†
Chpt 2.2 *
- The internal anatomy, I may remark here, as dissection has since shown, was almost equally simple.†
Chpt 2.2
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"