anatomically
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6.7
- adverb
- /əˈnætəˌmɪkli/
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anatómicamente
- Due to the geometry within the knee, the anatomically neutral position of the patella can display a high degree of variability.
- anatomically modern
- anatomically modern humans
- anatomically correct
I think when they're anatomically accurate, there's it's a good base for a personality like that bird.
- I think when they're anatomically accurate, there's it's a good base for a personality like that bird.
- So it's it's it's it's an anatomically forced addition to the species simply because they were connecting the dots.
- It is visually anatomically beautiful with these kind of intertwining twirly sub regions within it.
Examples
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The investigator should bring along anatomically correct dolls or other necessary equipment.
Academic text (1992) -
What I typically do with a gunshot wound to the head case is I'll try to reconstruct the skull by taking the fragments and putting them back into the place where they belong anatomically.
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I thought, God, imagine if I had ordered an anatomically correct this one.
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Now, you see here, brain on the left and the heart on the right, anatomically perfectly correct.
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OK, so the bones in my hand are from an anatomically correct model that I bought.
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An in vitro experiment can use an anatomically realistic model of the human heart, through which researchers can pump blood.
Academic text (2004) -
We may behave like omnivores but anatomically, we're frugivores.
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KENYA: Recently discovered footprints are the earliest-known evidence of anatomically modern feet.
Academic text (2009) -
The rabbit femoral artery model was chosen because the arterial wall structure of rabbits is anatomically analogous to human vessels.
Academic text (2012) -
The teacher used an anatomically correct model to demonstrate how the human body functions.
Synonyms
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5.0
In a way that changes the parts that hold something together
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6.9
In a way that relates to the form or structure of living things and words
In a way that shows how parts are arranged
Compounds
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6.3
Showing the real shape and parts of a human or animal body, including private parts
Surface Forms
Morphology
anatomically = anatomical (transparent) = anatomy + ical + ly
Formed regularly by adding the adverbial suffix '-ly' to the adjective 'anatomical', so the meaning is directly predictable.
Etymology
Anatomically comes from anatomy, and the root parts ana- and -tomy once meant 'cutting up' so doctors could look inside a body, so people used the word for studying body parts; that's why anatomically means 'about the body's structure'.