anthropotomy

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From anthropo- +‎ -tomy, from Ancient Greek.

Noun[edit]

anthropotomy (usually uncountable, plural anthropotomies)

  1. (archaic) The anatomy or dissection of the human body; androtomy.
    • 1843, Richard Owen, Lectures on the Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of the Invertebrate Animals:
      In many Mammalia we find the pterygoid processes of anthropotomy permanently distinct bones

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Translations[edit]

anatomy or dissection of the human body

References[edit]

“anthropotomy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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