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[Fr. an atom i que; Sp, Port., & Ital. an a to mico = anatomical; Lat. an a to micos = an anatomist; Gr. ἀνατομικός ( an atom i kos ) = skilled in anatomy.] Relating or pertaining to anatomy. [ANATOMY.] 1. Spec.: Used for the purpose of anatomy. "An anatomical knife."- Watts: Logick. 2. Proceeding on the principles of anatomy; as exhibited by anatomy. the various ti ues, the anatomical character of which will be discu ed in subsequent pages." Todd & Bowman: Physiol. Anat ., vol. i., p. 46. ". the anatomical evidence by which they ăn-a-tom-i-cal-lý, adv . [Eng. anatomical ; -ly.] In an anatomical manner; on the recognised principles of anatomy; in the way required by anatomy; by anatomical research. "The presence of nerves, and their mode of subdivision, have not as yet been satisfactorily demonstrated anatomically ."- Todd & Bowman: Physiol. Anat., vol. i., p. 70. it ceases to be anatomically recognisable." -Ibid . , vol. 1., p. 168. ăn-at-om-ist, s. [In Sw. anatomist ; Fr. an atom i ste; Sp., Port., & Ital. anatomist a .] 1. Lit. One who di ects the bodies of men or animals to ascertain their internal organisation. One who di ects plants with a similar object in view is never simply called an anatomist; he is denominated a vegetable anatomist. Adjectives are prefixed to the noun to indicate the departments of animal anatomy which a cultivator of the science specially studies; as Comparative anatomist: One versed in comparative anatomy. "Pursuing the comparison through the complexities of the bony framework, the comparative anatomist would first glance at the more obvious characters."Owen: Cla ific. of the Mammal i a , pp. 77, 78. Morbid anatomist: One whose special department of the science is morbid anatomy. [ANATOMY.] the researches of the morbid anatomist."Todd & Bowman: Physiol. Anat., 1. 316. The chief names in antiquity which have come down to our time as anatomists are those of the second Hippo crates, who was born B.C. 460, and died about 877; Aristotle, who made his chief anatomical investigations between B.C. 334 and 327; Hero phil us and Eras i stratus of Alexandria, in the third century B.C. (?); Celsus, A. D. 3 to 5 (?); and the most illustrious, in this respect, of all, Galen of Pergamus, who was born in A. D. 131, and died about the beginning of the third century. In modern times the revival of anatomical study began in Italy, and quite a crowd of illustrious inquirers flourished in that country before much was done in this department of science in the other parts of Europe. The first was Mondini of Bologna, who flourished about A.D. 1315. Of the rest may be mentioned Eustachi, about 1495 or 1500, after whom a tube in the ear is called, and a valvular membrane in the heart [EUSTACHIAN); Fallopio, or Fallopius, who was born about 1523, and died in 1562, and who gave a name to the Fallopian tubes of the uterus; Cæsalpini, after whom the Cæsalpinia genus of plants is called; and finally, Malpighi, born in 1628, and died 1694, after whom the Malpighia genus of plants and a gland are named. Of the early English anatomists, the most illustrious was Harvey, who was born in 1578, published his immortal work, in which the circulation of the blood is intimated, in The later anatomists 1628, and died in 1657. who have rendered good service to the science are too numerous to be mentioned here. 2. Fig .: One who examines the internal structure of anything; one who keenly di ects anything submitted to his scrutiny.