different between anatomy vs azygos

English

Etymology

From French anatomie, from Latin anatomia, from Ancient Greek *???????? (*anatomía), from ??????? (anatom?, “dissection”), from ??? (aná, “up”) + ????? (témn?, “I cut, incise”) (surface analysis ana- +? -tomy), literally “cut up”. Doublet of ottomy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??næt?mi/

Noun

anatomy (countable and uncountable, plural anatomies)

1. The art of studying the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy.

   Synonym: dissection

2. The science that deals with the form and structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure or organization.

   Hyponyms: anthropotomy, phytotomy, zootomy

   • 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy

     Let the muscles be well inserted and bound together, according to the knowledge of them which is given us by anatomy.

3. (countable) A treatise or book on anatomy.
4. (by extension) The act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts.

   Synonym: analysis

5. (colloquial) The form of an individual.

6. (euphemistic) The human body, especially in reference to the private parts.
7. (archaic) A skeleton, or dead body.
   • , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1 p.68:

     So did the Ægyptians, who in the middest of their banquetings, and in the full of their greatest cheere, caused the anatomy of a dead man to be brought before them, as a memorandum and warning to their guests.

8. The physical or functional organization of an organism, or part of it.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• phytotomy
• zootomy

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ?????? (ázugos, “unwedded, unpaired”).

Noun

azygos

1. (anatomy, medicine) In anatomy, a structure that is unpaired. This is relatively unusual, as most elements of anatomy reflect bilateral symmetry.

Synonyms

• impar

Derived terms

• azygos vein

Anagrams

• gyozas