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For other uses, see anatomy (disambiguation).
Human heart and lungs, from an older edition of Gray's Anatomy.
Anatomy (from the Greek ἀνατομία anatomia, from ἀνατÎμνειν ana: separate, apart from, and temnein, to cut up, cut open) is a branch of biology and medicine that is the consideration of the structure of living things. It is a general term that includes human anatomy, animal anatomy (zootomy) and plant anatomy (phytotomy). In some of its facets anatomy is closely related to embryology, comparative anatomy and comparative embryology,[1] through common roots in evolution. |
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