ANATOMIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does anatomist mean? 

• ANATOMIST (noun)
  The noun ANATOMIST has 1 sense:

1. an expert in anatomy

  Familiarity information: ANATOMIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANATOMIST (noun)

Sense 1

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)

 Context examples 

A chemical used in manufacturing and chemical industries, and as a preservative by anatomists, embalmers, and pathologists.

(Formaldehyde, NCI Dictionary)

In 1816, an Italian anatomist reported finding lymphatic vessels on the surface of the brain, but for two centuries, it was forgotten.

(NIH researchers uncover drain pipes in our brains, National Institutes of Health)