All 11 Uses of
anatomy
in
Of Human Bondage
- She talked glibly of anatomy and construction, planes and lines, and of much else which Philip did not understand.†
Chpt 39-40 *
- Philip found that his first lecture was in anatomy, at eleven, and about half past ten he limped across the road, and a little nervously made his way to the Medical School.†
Chpt 53-54
- They came to a door marked Anatomy Theatre.†
Chpt 53-54
- He spoke of anatomy with enthusiasm: it was essential to the study of surgery; a knowledge of it added to the appreciation of art.†
Chpt 53-54
- "You will have to learn many tedious things,' he finished, with an indulgent smile, "which you will forget the moment you have passed your final examination, but in anatomy it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.'†
Chpt 53-54
- The "first conjoint' examination consisted of biology, anatomy, and chemistry; but it could be taken in sections, and most fellows took their biology three months after entering the school.†
Chpt 53-54
- Anatomy was a dreary science, a mere matter of learning by heart an enormous number of facts; dissection bored him; he did not see the use of dissecting out laboriously nerves and arteries when with much less trouble you could see in the diagrams of a book or in the specimens of the pathological museum exactly where they were.†
Chpt 55-56
- He knew enough anatomy to make pretty certain of getting the carotid artery.†
Chpt 59-60
- He had an examination in anatomy at the end of March.†
Chpt 61-62
- Philip did not pass the examination in anatomy at the end of March.†
Chpt 63-64
- He was very anxious to pass, first to save himself time and expense, for money had been slipping through his fingers during the last four months with incredible speed; and then because this examination marked the end of the drudgery: after that the student had to do with medicine, midwifery, and surgery, the interest of which was more vivid than the anatomy and physiology with which he had been hitherto concerned.†
Chpt 73-74
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"