anatomically

English

Etymology

From anatomical +‎ -ly.

Adverb

anatomically (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to the anatomy.
    • 1998, Stuart W. Pyhrr et al., Heroic Armor of the Italian Renaissance: Filippo Negroli and His Contemporaries, Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, page 285:
      The cuirass of Roman muscled type is composed of an anatomically modeled breastplate and backplate, each made in one with a gorget []
    • 2001 June 29, PB Pettitt, “Neanderthal lifecycles: Developmental and social phases in the lives of the last archaics”, in World archaeology, volume 31, number 3:
      The apparent absence of any apparent sexual or age-based divisions of labour contrasts strikingly with anatomically modern humans of the Pleistocene in which females appear to gracilize relatively quickly, implying perhaps a sex-based division of labour (Soffer 1994).
    • 2015 December 10, “Osteological and Soft-Tissue Evidence for Pneumatization in the Cervical Column of the Ostrich ( Struthio camelus ) and Observations on the Vertebral Columns of Non-Volant, Semi-Volant and Semi-Aquatic Birds”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      In most birds, the lung is functionally and anatomically subdivided into paleopulmo and neopulmo portions.
    • 2016 November 26, Elsa Panciroli, “Rifling through the 'wastebaskets' of palaeontology reveals surprises”, in The Guardian[2]:
      These creatures are so anatomically similar it’s proven hard to figure out their relationships, both with one another and with later carnivoran groups.

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