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But the transformations believed in by the anatomist are as yet proved true in no single instance, and in no substance, spiritual or material; and I cannot too often, or too earnestly, urge you not to waste your time in guessing what animals may once have been, while you remain in nearly total ignorance of what they are 64.

—Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds

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noun An expert in or a student of anatomy.

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'The Harveys' after the English physician, anatomist, and physiologist who discovered the circulation of blood in the human body. — AFL Latest News and Broadband
Speaking as a former anatomist, we'll need to know a lot more about the nature of the fracture before we run in circles, scream and shout. — U.S.S. Mariner
He was an architect, anatomist, sculptor, scientist, mathematician, musician, and painter. — Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
As an invertebrate comparative anatomist, I am hard pressed to find anything in the nest of an ant that corresponds to the integument of a tapeworm or the coelomic cavity of an echiuran. — American Scientist Online
Every anatomist is a comparer, in a greater or lesser degree; and he is the greatest anatomist who compares the most generally Impressed with this belief, I have laid particular emphasis on imitating the character of the normal form of the human figure, taken as a whole; that of its several regions as parts of this whole, and that of the various organs (contained within those regions) as its integrals or elements. — Surgical Anatomy