Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Anatomical analysis; organization with reference to anatomical structure; exhibition of anatomical details or features, as in painting or statuary.
  • noun Anatomical structure regarded as a basis of biological phenomena; anatomy considered as the foundation of the phenomena of life exhibited by organized bodies.
  • noun The doctrine that anatomical structure accounts for all manifestations of vitality; anatomical materialism, as opposed to animism.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The application of the principles of anatomy, as in art.
  • noun The doctrine that the anatomical structure explains all the phenomena of the organism or of animal life.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The application of the principles of anatomy, as in art.
  • noun The doctrine that the anatomical structure explains all the phenomena of the organism or of animal life.

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Examples

  • Any mind capable of reasoning should have no trouble in rightly assigning the responsibility of this disease, if sufficient attention be given to anatomism.

    Appendicitis John Henry Tilden 1895

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