All 3 Uses
anatomy
in
The Lovely Bones
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- "If I'm not mistaken," said Miss Ryan, "there are no breasts on our anatomy model."†
Chpt 6 *
- 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.†
Chpt 16
- 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.†
Chpt 16
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)