anatomist
noun
anat·o·mist
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Definition of anatomist
1
: a specialist in anatomy
2
: one who analyzes minutely and critically
an anatomist of urban society
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Such a statement does not diminish the considerable progress neuroscience has made in the more than a century since Italian physician Camillo Golgi and Spanish anatomist Santiago Ramón y Cajal created the first drawings of neurons. — Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, "Scientists Start Building a Parts List for the Brain," 21 Aug. 2019 Writing in 1775, for example, German anatomist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, decided to divide the people of the world into five races. — Patrick Iber, The New Republic, "Pioneers of Cultural Relativism," 14 Aug. 2019 One of those fragments concerns Philip Verheyen, the seventeenth-century Flemish anatomist who gave the Achilles tendon its name. — Ruth Franklin, The New Yorker, "Olga Tokarczuk’s Novels Against Nationalism," 29 July 2019 In a study published in a German scientific journal, anatomist and musician Andreas Otte deduced that Bach—a gifted organist and harpsichordist—had an exceptional reach at the keyboard. — Ines Bellinger, National Geographic, "How Bach’s anatomy may have handed him greatness," 25 July 2019 As a veterinarian, anatomist, and physiologist, Leslie Sprunger has taught small animal anatomy at Washington State University for nearly two decades. — Brian Barrett, WIRED, "A Feline Anatomy Expert Weighs In on That Cats Trailer," 18 July 2019 Anne Burrows, an anatomist at Duquesne University, in Pittsburgh, had studied chimpanzee faces. — James Gorman, New York Times, "Those Puppy Dog Eyes You Can’t Resist? Thank Evolution," 17 June 2019 Langman and his co-author, the Yale anatomist Harold Saxton Burr, were among a small clique of scientists investigating the electrical properties of human tissue. — Sally Adee, Quartz, "Our bodies are full of electricity that could help us fight cancer," 30 May 2019 Discovered in the Neander Valley, the fossils were meticulously surveyed and recorded by German schoolteacher Johann Fuhlrott, who made the discovery, and anatomist Hermann Schaaffhausen, who described it in a scientific paper in 1857. — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, "How Do Scientists Identify New Species? For Neanderthals, It Was All About Timing and Luck," 9 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'anatomist.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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