anthropotomy
English edit
Etymology edit
From anthropo- + -tomy, from Ancient Greek.
Noun edit
anthropotomy (usually uncountable, plural anthropotomies)
- (archaic) The anatomy or dissection of the human body; androtomy.
- 1843, Richard Owen, Lectures on the Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of the Invertebrate Animals:
- In many Mammalia we find the pterygoid processes of anthropotomy permanently distinct bones
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
anatomy or dissection of the human body
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References edit
“anthropotomy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.