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  • noun Plural form of anatomy.

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Examples

  • The work consists of lengthy descriptions (Greek: historiai) of countless species of fish, shellfish, and other animals and their anatomies.

    Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009

  • By the end of the 1950s Freud's fraught personal life contributed to a visual restlessness, and he began standing to paint, letting the raked perspective exaggerate the anatomies of his subjects.

    Lucian Freud obituary 2011

  • Directors like Cristi Pulu ("The Death of Mr. Lazarescu"), Corneliu Porumboiu ("12:08 East of Bucharest") and Cristian Mungiu ("4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days") looked back to their nation's not-so-distant past to create powerful, often absurdist anatomies of the terminal phase of the Ceauşescu regime.

    Documentary Dramas and Communist Comedies Steve Dollar 2011

  • This 15-film retrospective salutes the filmmaker—who died April 9 at age 86—with screenings of such iconic civic anatomies as "Serpico," "Prince of the City" and "Q&A," often with performers and their real-life counterparts in attendance.

    Up on the Roof and Courting a Prince of New York Steve Dollar 2011

  • The work consists of lengthy descriptions (Greek: historiai) of countless species of fish, shellfish, and other animals and their anatomies.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009

  • What we see in the case of Melampus and Truncatella is a mosaic-like pattern of mixed anatomies and lifestyles often observed during evolutionary transitions from one habitat to a drastically different one.

    Archive 2009-01-01 AYDIN 2009

  • I'm talking about bodily discharge in motion, vaguely cannibalistic activities, and microscopic familiarity with our kiddies' anatomies.

    Devon Corneal: The Good, The Bad, And The Gross Devon Corneal 2012

  • I'm talking about bodily discharge in motion, vaguely cannibalistic activities, and microscopic familiarity with our kiddies' anatomies.

    Devon Corneal: The Good, The Bad, And The Gross Devon Corneal 2012

  • There are 2 primary groups of anatomies specializing in gas exchange: 1. organs formed as evaginations (B), e.g., gills; 2. organs formed as invaginations (C), e.g., lungs.

    Archive 2009-01-01 AYDIN 2009

  • You licked Cheese-Face because you wouldn't give in, and you wouldn't give in partly because you were an abysmal brute and for the rest because you believed what every one about you believed, that the measure of manhood was the carnivorous ferocity displayed in injuring and marring fellow-creatures 'anatomies.

    Chapter 29 2010

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