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anatomist

American  
[uh-nat-uh-mist] / əˈnæt ə mɪst /

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 British  
/ əˈnætəmɪst /

noun

  1. an expert in anatomy

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of anatomist

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

Example Sentences

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Nicknamed “Little” for her stature, the child finds employment in the household of a shy anatomist whose trade is making wax replicas of human body parts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

Other researchers argued it belonged to Australopithecus africanus, a species first described in 1925 by Australian anatomist Raymond Dart and already known from the same region.

From Science Daily • Jan. 5, 2026

It was one of three species for which the overarching term dinosauria was later coined in 1842 by the anatomist Richard Owen.

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2024

The anatomist did so by applying clay directly to the skull, using data on the average depth of facial tissue he gathered by examining the faces of 27 human corpses.

From National Geographic • Oct. 23, 2023

The master anatomist of the infinite was Georg Cantor.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife