the art of dissecting, or artificially separating the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dissection.-the science which treats of the structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure or organization.-a treatise or book on anatomy.-the act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts; analysis; as, the anatomy of a discourse.-a skeleton; anything anatomized or dissected, or which has the appearance of being so.