How to Use anatomist in a Sentence

anatomist

noun
  • The act allowed murderers’ bodies to be claimed by anatomists for research.
    — Tara Ramanathan, Encyclopedia Britannica, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Zuckerman, who was born in South Africa, had trained as an anatomist and a zoologist.
    — Phil Klay, The New Yorker, 11 June 2022
  • Leonardo da Vinci wasn't the best painter, engineer or anatomist in Florence.
    — Joseph Byrum, Forbes.com, 23 Feb. 2026
  • This was unusual because, at the time, most anatomists were more interested in the female anatomy.
    — Leila McNeill, Smithsonian, 26 July 2017
  • At his schools, students learn anatomy by looking at prosections, dissections done by skilled anatomists.
    — National Geographic, 29 July 2016
  • Some rooms dedicated to the school’s famous anatomists and biologists had a Frankenstein’s lab feel.
    — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2020
  • The changes are part of an evolution in medical ethics that calls on anatomists to treat human specimens with the same dignity shown to living patients.
    — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Sadly, his friends sold his body to a wealthy surgeon and anatomist (John Hunter) who made Byrne’s skeleton the centerpiece of his collection.
    — Ryan Craig, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
  • To doctors, anatomists, and early paleontologists, the molars of the mastodon looked like spikes perfectly suited for piercing flesh.
    — Brian Switek, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2012
  • In the process, Kim becomes an anthropologist, an anatomist and a mathematician.
    — Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Anatomists held public dissections to expose the telltale traits of moral corruption in the internal organs of criminals and convicts.
    — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2017
  • The wandering nerve was apparent to the first anatomists, notably Galen, the Greek polymath who lived until around the year 216.
    — R Douglas Fields, WIRED, 29 Sep. 2024
  • These structures were first recognized in the 16th century by anatomist Gabriele Falloppio.
    — Mark Gurarie, Health, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Two centuries ago, the anatomist Paolo Mascagni made full-body models of the lymphatic system that included the brain, though this was dismissed as an error.
    — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2017
  • Anne Burrows, an anatomist at Duquesne University, in Pittsburgh, had studied chimpanzee faces.
    — James Gorman, New York Times, 17 June 2019
  • Over the years, some people have assumed Bötzinger must have been a famous anatomist, Feldman says, perhaps a German or Austrian.
    — Greg Miller, Discover Magazine, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Hunter, the London surgeon and anatomist, saw a scientific opportunity in Byrne’s failing health.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 26 June 2018
  • Some of the first real studies of the Shroud were done by a French anatomist named Yves Delage at the beginning of the 20th century.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 2 Nov. 2020
  • Not until a great white shark was brought to an anatomist in 1666 did experts imagine that the relics came from ancient sharks—and that the teeth must have drifted down to the seafloor and been covered by sediment.
    — Joe Spring, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Dec. 2021
  • One of those fragments concerns Philip Verheyen, the seventeenth-century Flemish anatomist who gave the Achilles tendon its name.
    — Ruth Franklin, The New Yorker, 29 July 2019
  • German anatomist Carl Bergmann theorized in 1847 that animals of similar species tend to be larger in cold climates.
    — Max G. Levy, WIRED, 6 Jan. 2024
  • The most compelling definition of life Zimmer quotes, for example, is that of the eighteenth-century anatomist Xavier Bichat, who framed it in relation to its foe.
    — Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 12 Mar. 2021
  • The ships’ two doctors are the main bridge between the officers and the men, treating the wounded regardless of rank, and their assistant, an anatomist named Henry Goodsir, is the show’s moral compass.
    — Eva Holland, Outside Online, 22 Mar. 2018
  • But the devil is in the details, cautioned Carol Ward, an anthropologist and anatomist at the University of Missouri.
    — Thomas Garlinghouse, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2019
  • The brilliant anatomist Andreas Vesalius, to atone for crimes against orthodoxy, was forced to go on pilgrimage to Jerusalem and perished on the island of Zakynthos when his ship foundered.
    — John J. Ross, WSJ, 24 July 2022
  • After all, Douglas Derry, a skilled anatomist, had examined Tutankhamun’s feet in the 1920s and didn’t notice anything unusual.
    — Bob Brier, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2022
  • In the 19th century, a new era of transportation, anatomist Otto Deiters, among many others, conceived of the nervous system as a railroad, with junctions at which traffic could be routed.
    — Benjamin Ehrlich, Scientific American, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Around that time, perhaps influenced by the predominant metaphor, German anatomist Joseph von Gerlach looked at nervous tissue through his microscope and saw the tangle of fibers—a reticulum.
    — Benjamin Ehrlich, Scientific American, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Artist, inventor and anatomist Leonardo da Vinci was the definition of a Renaissance man — and scientists are aiming to unlock the secrets of his genius on a genetic level.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Though the young man’s companions tried to fulfill his wishes, an anatomist named John Hunter thwarted these plans, reportedly paying someone £500 to open Byrne’s coffin and replace his remains with a heavy weight.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Jan. 2023

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