All 3 Uses
anatomy
in
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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- 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
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)