All 5 Uses of
anatomy
in
Moby Dick
- Thus speak of the whale, the great Cuvier, and John Hunter, and Lesson, those lights of zoology and anatomy.†
Chpt 31-33 *
- But it may possibly be conceived that, in the internal parts of the whale, in his anatomy—there, at least, we shall be able to hit the right classification.†
Chpt 31-33
- Nay; what thing, for example, is there in the Greenland whale's anatomy more striking than his baleen?†
Chpt 31-33
- Did erudite Stubb, mounted upon your capstan, deliver lectures on the anatomy of the Cetacea; and by help of the windlass, hold up a specimen rib for exhibition?†
Chpt 100-102
- But some specimen bones of it being taken across the sea to Owen, the English Anatomist, it turned out that this alleged reptile was a whale, though of a departed species.†
Chpt 103-105
Definition:
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"
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"