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ANATOMIST

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

An expert in anatomy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("anatomist" is a kind of...):

expert (a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "anatomist"):

comparative anatomist (anatomist who compares the anatomy of different animals)

histologist (anatomist who specializes in the microscopic study of animal tissues)

osteologer; osteologist (an anatomist who is skilled is osteology)

Instance hyponyms:

Bartolommeo Eustachio; Eustachio (Italian anatomist who was one of the fathers of modern anatomy; noted for descriptions of the ear and the heart (1520-1574))

Evans; Herbert McLean Evans (United States anatomist who identified four pituitary hormones and discovered vitamin E (1882-1971))

Fallopio; Fallopius; Gabriele Fallopius; Gabriello Fallopio (Italian anatomist who first described the Fallopian tubes (1523-1562))

Galen (Greek anatomist whose theories formed the basis of European medicine until the Renaissance (circa 130-200))

Georg Meissner; Meissner (German anatomist (1829-1905))

Johannes Peter Muller; Muller (German physiologist and anatomist (1801-1858))

Andreas Vesalius; Vesalius (a Flemish surgeon who is considered the father of modern anatomy (1514-1564))

Kaspar Friedrich Wolff; Wolff (German anatomist (1733-1794))

Derivation:

anatomy (alternative names for the body of a human being)

anatomy (the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals)

Credits