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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"
- Cross-legged in the examining-chair in Doc Vickerson's office, a boy was reading "Gray's Anatomy."Chapter 1 (10% in)
- Physician's library just three books: 'Gray's Anatomy' and Bible and Shakespeare.Chapter 1 (67% in)
- He entered the shadow of the Anatomy Building, grim as a barracks, still as the dead men lying up there in the dissecting-room.Chapter 2 (28% in)
- He thought of operating, of making a murderous wrong incision; and with a more immediate, macabre fear, he thought of the dissecting-room and the stony, steely Anatomy Building.Chapter 2 (35% in)
- Now, in melancholy worry about his own unreasonableness, he found that he was developing the same contempt for Robertshaw's rules of the thumb—and for most of the work in anatomy.Chapter 3 (7% in)
- The professor of anatomy, Dr. Oliver O. Stout, was himself an anatomy, a dissection-chart, a thinly covered knot of nerves and blood vessels and bones.Chapter 3 (7% in)
- The professor of anatomy, Dr. Oliver O. Stout, was himself an anatomy, a dissection-chart, a thinly covered knot of nerves and blood vessels and bones.Chapter 3 (8% in)
- In Dr. Stout's anatomy lectures there were no disturbances, but in his dissecting-room were many pleasantries.Chapter 3 (13% in)
- They dusted Fatty, they stood him right side up, and pushed him through the door, on his way to Anatomy Building.Chapter 3 (72% in)
- Though bacteriology was all of Martin's life now, it was the theory of the University that he was also studying pathology, hygiene, surgical anatomy, and enough other subjects to swamp a genius.Chapter 5 (1% in)
- Next morning, in the hall of the Anatomy Building, he saw Angus and rushed toward him.Chapter 7 (99% in)
- Presently they had friends: the Holabirds, Dr. Billy Smith—the thin-bearded biochemist, who had an intelligent taste in music and German beer—an anatomist whom Martin met at a Winnemac alumni dinner, and always Max Gottlieb.Chapter 26 (96% in)
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