(n.) The art of dissecting, or artificially separating the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dissection.
(n.) The science which treats of the structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure or organization.
(n.) A treatise or book on anatomy.
(n.) The act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts; analysis; as, the anatomy of a discourse.
(n.) A skeleton; anything anatomized or dissected, or which has the appearance of being so.
Example Sentences:
(1) The resulting dose distribution is displayed using traditional 2-dimensional displays or as an isodose surface composited with underlying anatomy and the target volume.
(2) In the past, the interpretation of the medical findings was hampered by a lack of knowledge of normal anatomy and genital flora in the nonabused prepubertal child.
(3) Delineation of the presence and anatomy of an obstructed, nonfunctioning upper-pole duplex system often requires multiple imaging techniques.
(4) The results obtained further knowledge of the anatomy of the nuclei, specifically the areas used for the prosthesis implantation and the underlying tissue.
(5) In the anatomy laboratory we looked for an alternative approach to the glenohumeral joint which would accommodate these difficulties.
(6) The coronary arterial anatomy in 26 univentricular hearts, its relation to the morphologic characteristics of the ventricles and rudimentary chambers, and its surgical implications were analyzed.
(7) It is non-invasive and produces a permanent record of vascular anatomy and flow characteristics.
(8) These factors include narrowing of septal arteries and the artery to the atrioventricular node, preservation of fetal anatomy with dispersion in the atrioventricular node and His bundle, fibrosis of the sinus node, clefts in the septum, multiple atrioventricular pathways and massive myocardial infarction.
(9) In terms of skeletal anatomy, a range of limb types was found.
(10) It is concluded that the massive destruction of the normal anatomy in the lateral semicircular canal may be the morphological basis of a functional endolymphatic fistula for drainage of the endolymphatic hydrops.
(11) This clearing and staining procedure is thus readily applicable to comparative studies in anatomy, embryology and systematic zoology.
(12) An accurate description of the coronary anatomy is desired before anatomic correction of d-transposition of the great arteries.
(13) The diagnosis of cervical injuries may be facilitated by following a logical pattern of analysis searching for abnormalities of alignment and anatomy, of bony integrity, of the cartilage or joint spaces, and of the soft tissues.
(14) The material comprised liver and kidney samples collected from inhabitants of the city of Białystok and of its vicinity during anatomopathological examination at the Department of Pathological Anatomy, Medical Academy in Białystok.
(15) As newer brain imaging techniques that are sensitive to function are developed, this line of enquiry holds considerable promise for furthering our understanding of the anatomy and physiology of emotion.
(16) This is a correlative study of normal anatomy of the lumbosacral spine and pelvis demonstrated by SPECT and radiography in order to assure that morphologic detail resulting from SPECT is recognized and matched with radiographic landmarks in the same area.
(17) A survey of pathogenesis, pathobiochemistry, pathological anatomy, clinic, diagnostics and therapy of the Zollinger-Ellison-syndrome is given.
(18) Fractal geometry offers a more accurate description of ocular anatomy and pathology than classical geometry, and provides a new language for posing questions about the complex geometrical patterns that are seen in ophthalmic practice.
(19) Results of crosses were consistent with the hypothesis that a single, incompletely dominant gene was acting, but further study of both the anatomy and heredity of the defect was deemed necessary.
(20) Lacrimal sac anatomy as determined by preoperative dacryocystography is an important prognostic factor in technically achieving surgical success.
Autopsy
Definition:
(a.) Personal observation or examination; seeing with one's own eyes; ocular view.
(a.) Dissection of a dead body, for the purpose of ascertaining the cause, seat, or nature of a disease; a post-mortem examination.
Example Sentences:
(1) After two weeks all animals were killed and autopsies of the animals were performed.
(2) It was the purpose of the present study to describe the normal pattern of the growth sites of the nasal septum according to age and sex by histological and microradiographical examination of human autopsy material.
(3) Prevalence data has been gathered from several autopsy studies.
(4) A clinically manifest disease could be found in 13 patients, meningosis was additionally detected by autopsy in 32 patients.
(5) In 8 of 32 patients (25%) the diagnosis was established only at autopsy.
(6) A third autopsy of Tomlinson, conducted on behalf of the officer, agreed with the findings of the second postmortem.
(7) Autopsy revealed serious somatic diseases (stenosis of the ileum in two cases and brain tumor in one); their symptoms had been largely overlapped by those of anorexia nervosa.
(8) At autopsy, this DOCA-hypertensive rat was found to have a form of hepatitis associated with proliferative activity, i.e., cellular unrest, mitotic figures and oval cell hyperplasia.
(9) All subjects underwent autopsy, and only six were found to have injuries compatible with survival.
(10) We studied the feasibility of using RNA and DNA from autopsies for Northern and Southern blot analysis.
(11) The autopsy findings in 41 patients with University of Cape Town aortic valve prostheses were studied.
(12) Autopsy revealed a primary intimal sarcoma with osteogenic elements arising in the posterior leaflet of the pulmonary valve and obstructing the main pulmonary artery and its right branch.
(13) Autopsy data of all patients who received EVS and who died (32 patients, 100%) during this period were available to confirm the diagnosis of perforation.
(14) At autopsy, 3 of the 15 patients who had normal angiograms were found not to have had thrombotic occlusions.
(15) A retrospective study of autopsy-verified fatal pulmonary embolism at a department of infectious diseases was carried out, covering a four-year period (1980-83).
(16) The present study was undertaken to measure free amino acid concentrations in 20 brain regions obtained at autopsy, from normal persons and schizophrenics.
(17) On a total of 23338 subjects who died between the years 1960 and 1971, 17052 autopsies were carried out (73.1%) and only 15384 (65.9%) of these were evaluated for out study.
(18) Clinical, autopsy and histopathological findings are described and are consistent with those previously recorded.
(19) Lung biopsy in two patients and autopsy in two additional patients showed interstitial changes consistent with drug injury.
(20) One patient with elevated serum immunoreactive parathyroid hormone (PTH) had a parathyroid adenoma at autopsy.