All 5 Uses
anatomy
in
Moby Dick
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- 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
Definitions:
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(1)
(anatomy) the structure of a person's or animal's body, and the branch of science that studies that structure; or by extension, any detailed analysisSomeone who “studies anatomy” is learning how the parts of the body are put together and how they relate to each other. We also sometimes use anatomy to mean the structure itself, as in "that part of the anatomy."
More figuratively, people may talk about "the anatomy of a disaster" or "the anatomy of a revolution," meaning a careful, detailed analysis of how it was put together. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)