anatomist

[ uh-nat-uh-mist ]

noun

1. a specialist in anatomy.
2. a person who analyzes all the parts or elements of something with particular care:

   an anatomist of public-school systems and their problems.

anatomist

/ əˈnætəmɪst /

noun

1. an expert in anatomy

Word History and Origins

Origin of anatomist¹

1560–70; anatom(y) + -ist or < Middle French anatomiste

Example Sentences

Early anatomists mapped the nervous system through dissection, Domingos says.

From Science Magazine

Using the bodies of executed people was “a centuries-old practice in anatomy,” preferred because anatomists could time their work swiftly after a scheduled death, said Dr. Sabine Hildebrandt, an anatomy educator at Harvard Medical School.

From Los Angeles Times

In the 1940s, anatomists found evidence that they existed in adult sharks, which evolved some 450 million years ago.

From Science Magazine

According to a statement by its owner, the binding was commissioned in 1682 by an Italian doctor and anatomist identified as Jacopo X, and has been kept by his descendants ever since.

From New York Times

It’s for good reasons, ethically and conservation-wise, that it’s so rare for anatomists to have a dead gorilla you can legally dissect.

From Salon