a. [f. as prec. + -ICAL.]
1. Belonging to, or connected with, the study or practice of anatomy or dissection.
1586. T. B., La Primaudaye’s Fr. Acad., To Reader. To make this use of the anatomicall consideration of our bodies.
1665. Phil. Trans., I. 75. Many considerable Medical and Anatomical inquiries.
1724. Watts, Logick (1729), 138 (J.). It has the Use of an anatomical Knife, which dissects an animal Body.
1753. Hogarth, Anal. Beauty, i. 16. The superior anatomical knowledge … of the ancients.
1821. W. Craig, Drawing, i. 40. A celebrated anatomical draftsman.
1878. Bryant, Pract. Sur., I. 68. Anatomical or Pathological Tubercle is a chronic skin affection … met with on the hands of those constantly engaged in making post-mortem examinations.
2. Of anatomy; structural, anatomic; also transf.
1627. Hakewill, Apol. (1630), 244. The perfiting of the anatomical … art in this latter age.
a. 1704. Locke, Hum. Und. (1706), xv. 121 (J.). Solidity, (which is apt to be confounded with, and if we will look into the minute anatomical [1690 atomical] parts of Matter, is little different from Harness).
1840. Dickens, Barn. Rudge, xxxix. (C. D. ed.), 185. Putting his fingers … on Hugh’s throat … as if he were studying the anatomical development of that part of his frame.
1863. Ramsay, Phys. Geogr., iii. (1878), 36. The anatomical structure or existing Physical Geography of our island.
1880. Bastian, Brain, ii. 29. Our knowledge of the exact arrangement of the anatomical elements of nervous tissues, as well as of their modes of development, is as yet merely in its infancy.
