different between skeleton vs anatomy

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sk?l?t?n/

Etymology 1

From New Latin sceleton, from Ancient Greek ???????? (skeletós, “dried up, withered, dried body, parched, mummy”), from ?????? (skéll?, “dry, dry up, make dry, parch”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh?- (“to parch, wither”); compare Ancient Greek ??????? (skl?rós, “hard”).

Alternative forms

• sceleton (obsolete)

Noun

skeleton (plural skeletons or skeleta)

1. (anatomy) The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals.
2. An anthropomorphic representation of a skeleton.
3. (figuratively) A very thin person.

4. (figuratively) The central core of something that gives shape to the entire structure.

5. (architecture) A frame that provides support to a building or other construction.
6. (computing) A client-helper procedure that communicates with a stub.

7. (geometry) The vertices and edges of a polyhedron, taken collectively.
8. (printing) A very thin form of light-faced type.
9. (attributive) Reduced to a minimum or bare essentials.

Synonyms

• (anatomy): ottomy (obsolete), skellington (nonstandard)
• (very thin person): see also Thesaurus:thin person
• (central core giving shape to something): backbone

Antonyms

• (computing): stub

Derived terms

• skeletal
• skeletally
• skelly

Related terms

Translations

Verb

skeleton (third-person singular simple present skeletons, present participle skeletoning, simple past and past participle skeletoned)

1. (archaic) to reduce to a skeleton; to skin; to skeletonize
2. (archaic) to minimize

See also

• bone

Etymology 2

The etymology of the term is disputed between two versions.

• From the sled used, which originally was a bare frame, like a skeleton.
• From Norwegian kjaelke (a type of ice sled) through a bad anglicization as "skele".

Noun

skeleton (uncountable)

1. (sports, uncountable) A type of tobogganing in which competitors lie face down, and descend head first.

   Synonym: skeleton tobogganing

   Coordinate terms: luge, bobsled

Translations

References

Further reading

• skeleton on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• skeleton (sport) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• skeleton (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Esperanto

Noun

skeleton

1. accusative singular of skeleto

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ske.le.t??/

Noun

skeleton m (uncountable)

1. skeleton (winter sport)

Derived terms

• skeletoneur

Portuguese

Noun

skeleton m (uncountable)

1. skeleton (type of tobogganing)

Related terms

• esqueleto

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