anatomist
noun
anat·o·mist
ə-ˈna-tə-mist 
1
: a specialist in anatomy
2
: one who analyzes minutely and critically
an anatomist of urban society
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Many programs have halted the practice in recent years, though, and some states, including Hawaii, Minnesota and Vermont, have flatly prohibited it — part of an evolution of medical ethics that has called on anatomists to treat human specimens with the same dignity shown to living patients.
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Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC News, 16 Sep. 2024
The wandering nerve was apparent to the first anatomists, notably Galen, the Greek polymath who lived until around the year 216.
—R. Douglas Fields, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2024
In 1925, 43 years after Darwin's death, anatomist Raymond Dart published a paper describing a fossil from Taung, South Africa, with an apelike braincase and humanlike teeth.
—Kate Wong, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2020
But this brief explanation remains uncorroborated, and there is another theory about the artifact’s origin: Some say it was donated by the anatomist Grafton Elliot Smith, one of the 20th century’s most prominent Egyptologists.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2024
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Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC News, 16 Sep. 2024
The wandering nerve was apparent to the first anatomists, notably Galen, the Greek polymath who lived until around the year 216.
—R. Douglas Fields, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2024
In 1925, 43 years after Darwin's death, anatomist Raymond Dart published a paper describing a fossil from Taung, South Africa, with an apelike braincase and humanlike teeth.
—Kate Wong, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2020
But this brief explanation remains uncorroborated, and there is another theory about the artifact’s origin: Some say it was donated by the anatomist Grafton Elliot Smith, one of the 20th century’s most prominent Egyptologists.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2024
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anatomist
noun
anat·o·mist
ə-ˈnat-ə-məst
: a specialist in anatomy
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anatomist
noun
anat·o·mist
ə-ˈnat-ə-məst
: a specialist in anatomy
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