anthropotomy

English

Etymology

From anthropo- +‎ -tomy, from Ancient Greek.

Noun

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

Derived terms

Translations
anatomy or dissection of the human body

References

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

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