All 8 Uses
anatomy
in
Atonement, by Ian McEwan
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- Gray's Anatomy was open by a folio pad of his own drawings.†
Chpt 1 *
- Elsewhere, strewn between the revision notes, landscape gardening and anatomy piles, were various letters and cards: unpaid battels, letters from tutors and friends congratulating him on his first, which he still took pleasure in rereading, and others mildly querying his next step.†
Chpt 1
- Then, after a few moments' reverie, tilted back on his chair, during which time he thought about the page at which his Anatomy tended to fall open these days, he dropped forward and typed before he could stop himself, "In my dreams I kiss your cunt, your sweet wet cunt.†
Chpt 1
- The handwritten letter he had rested on the open copy of Gray's Anatomy, Splanchnology section, page 1546, the vagina.†
Chpt 1
- When she wrote, "I went to the library today to get the anatomy book I told you about.†
Chpt 2
- New courses on hospital nursing and preliminary anatomy began.†
Chpt 3
- When the last was out, the resemblance to the cutaway model they used in anatomy classes was only faint.†
Chpt 3
- At the bottom were Gray's Anatomy and a collected Shakespeare, and above them, on slenderer spines, names in faded silver and gold—she saw Housman and Crabbe.†
Chpt 3
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)