Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an anatomical manner; as regards structure; by means of anatomy or dissection.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an anatomical manner; by means of dissection.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb Pertaining to the
anatomy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb with respect to anatomy
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Examples
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Joanna Baillie was well connected to the medical and scientific discourses of her day that placed women in anatomically and socially inferior roles.
Feminist Utopianism and Female Sexuality in Joanna Baillies Comedies 2008
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That is hardly what I would call anatomically correct.
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Looking at Life anatomically, which is as good a way as any, she was preordained to be a Shoulder.
Options O. Henry 1886
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So-called anatomically modern humans are thought to have emerged somewhere in Africa some
BBC News - Home 2011
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As primarily a driving game, it's not mega-detailed, but the zombies are what you might call anatomically correct, in the sense that they aren't cartoonish.
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Although gene flow between different populations need not be bidirectional, it has been shown that when a colonizing population (such as anatomically modern humans) encounters a resident population (such as Neandertals), even a small number of breeding events along the wave front of expansion into new territory can result in substantial introduction of genes into the colonizing population as introduced alleles can “surf” to high frequency as the population expands.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “I, for One, Welcome My Neandertal Ancestry” 2010
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You were mocking a very poorly-done (lumpy icing!) cake that uses unappealing icing (black), is "anatomically" incorrect (no beach), may (or may not) be pointing the finger at the right firm, and appears to be celebrating a disaster.
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Although gene flow between different populations need not be bidirectional, it has been shown that when a colonizing population (such as anatomically modern humans) encounters a resident population (such as Neandertals), even a small number of breeding events along the wave front of expansion into new territory can result in substantial introduction of genes into the colonizing population as introduced alleles can “surf” to high frequency as the population expands.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “I, for One, Welcome My Neandertal Ancestry” 2010
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Just because homosexuality is not "anatomically" natural, is it necessarily "morally" wrong?
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Just because homosexuality is not "anatomically" natural, is it necessarily "morally" wrong?
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