anatomy
- anatomy (n.) late 14c., "study of the structure of living beings;" c.1400, "anatomical structures," from O.Fr. anatomie, from L.L. anatomia, from Gk. anatomia, from anatome "dissection," from ana- "up" (see ANA- (Cf. ana-)) + temnein "to cut" (see TOME (Cf. tome)). "Dissection" (1540s), "mummy" (1580s), and "skeleton" (1590s) were primary senses of this word in Shakespeare's day; meaning "the science of the structure of organized bodies" predominated from 17c. Often mistakenly divided as an atomy or a natomy.The scyence of the Nathomy is nedefull and necessarye to the Cyrurgyen [1541]
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