anatreptic (anatreptik)

[ ancestrally made by the ovipositor of an insect for the de The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary = Sp. anatomía Pg. It. an a tomia, up, cut open, τομή, MGr. τομία, a cutting, τόμος, a cut, a section, tome: see tome. Hence, by misunderstanding, an atomy, a skeleton: see atomy2.] 1. Di ection; the act or art of di ecting organized bodies with reference to their structure; the practice of anatomizing; anatomization, 2. That which is learned from di ection; the science of the bodily structure of animals and plants; the doctrines of organization de rived from structure. See histology, organography, organology, morphology, zoöto my, phytotomy, anthropotomy.-3. Anatomical structure or organization; the formation and disposition of the parts of an organized body. Hence -4. The structure of any inanimate body, as a machine; the structure of a thing, with reference to its parts. [Rare.] -5. A treatise on anatomical science or art; anatomical description or history; a manual of di ection.6. Figuratively, any analysis or minute examination of the parts or properties of a thing, material, critical, or moral. -7t. That which is di ected or results from di ection; a di ected body, part, of organ. 8. A subject of or for di ection; that which is or appears to be ready or fit for di ecting: in various obsolete, colloquial, or figurative uses. Specifically-(a) A corpse procured or prepared for di ection. (b) An anatomical model; a model of a di ected body, as in plaster, wax, or papier mâché, displaying the structure and position of parts or organs; an anatomical cast or waxwork. (c) The solid or bony framework of a body; a skeleton. The anatomy of a little child... is accounted a greater rarity than the skeleton of a man in full stature. Fuller . (d) A much emaciated person or other living being; one almost reduced to a skeleton. [Now only jocose.] They brought one Pinch, a hungry, lean-fac'd villain, A mere anatomy , a mountebank. Shak ., C. of E., v. 1. Pa ion and the vows I owe to you Have changed me to a lean anatomy . Ford, Love's Sacrifice, ii. 1. (e) Of persons, the body or any part of it; the physique, as if a mere anatomical structure. (f) A mummy; a corpse, dried and shriveled. (g) Figuratively, the withered, lifele form of anything material or immaterial; meaningle form; shadow without substance. - Anatomy Act, an English statute of 1832 (2 and 3 Wm. IV., c. 75) regulating schools of anatomy and the practice of di ection.-Animal anatomy, the anatomy of animals as distinguished from that of plants; zoöto my and anthropotomy as distinguished from phytotomy. - Artificial anatomy, a term sometimes applied to the art of making anatomical models. -Avian anatomy, the di ection of birds; ornithotomy.-Clastic anatomy, the art (invented by Auzoux, 1825) of making manikins or anatomical models in papier mâché representing the natural appearance of all the parts in separate pieces, which can be joined as a whole and taken apart. - Comparative anatomy. (a) The investigation or study of the anatomy of animals in its special relation to human structure, or as exhibiting the relation of the human type to the types of lower orders. (b) A comprehensive account of the anatomy of living organisms lower than man, or of any one group alone. [Obsolescent.] (c) The examination and comparison of the structure of all animals, including man, with reference to morphology, organology, and taxonomy; anatomy in general. Descriptive anatomy, an account of parts and organs of the body with special regard to their structure, position, or relations, but without regard to their mor pho logical significance the opposite of comparative an at cal and surgical aspects. Also called special anatomy. -General anatomy, a branch of descriptive anatomy which treats especially of histology, or the structure and physical properties of the ti ues of the body, without regard to the disposition of the parts and organs composed of them.-Gro anatomy, the anatomy of parts and organs discernible by the naked eye, and handled without special appliances; organology as distinguished from his tology: the opposite of minute anatomy. - Minute an at overturn,