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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"
- "If I'm not mistaken," said Miss Ryan, "there are no breasts on our anatomy model."Chapter Six (20% in)
- He would sit at his desk and read his favorite book—Gray's Anatomy—and depending on what he was reading about he would use his fingers to palpate his carotid artery or his thumb to press down and follow the longest muscle in his body—the sartorius, which ran from the outside of his hip to the inside of his knee.Chapter Sixteen (79% in)
- Despite how he could dissect it—the vessels of the globe of my eye, the surgical anatomy of my nasal fossae, the light tincture of my epidermis—he could not avoid them, the lips he had once kissed.Chapter Sixteen (81% in)
There are no more uses of "anatomy" in The Lovely Bones.
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