Noun

(wikipedia morphology)

(uncountable) A scientific study of form and structure, usually without regard to function. Especially:

# (linguistics) The study of the internal structure of morphemes (words and their semantic building blocks).

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, year = 2001 , author = Yehuda Falk , title = Lexical-Functional Grammar , site = CSLI Publications , url = http://www.stanford.edu/group/cslipublications/cslipublications/pdf/1575863405.pdf , accessdate = 2014-02-25 }}

There are many ways to show that word structure is different from phrase and sentence structure. We will mention two here. First, free constituent order in syntax is common cross-linguistically; many languages lack fixed order of the kind that one finds in English. In morphology', on the other hand, order is always fixed. There is no such thing as free morpheme order. Even languages with wildly free word order, such as the Pama-Nyungan (Australian) language Warlpiri (Simpson 1991), have a fixed order of morphemes within the word. Second, syntactic and morphological patterns can differ within the same language. For example, note the difference in English in the positioning of head and complement between syntax and ' morphology .

# (biology) The study of the form and structure of animals and plants.

# (geology) The study of the structure of rocks and landforms.

(countable) The form and structure of something.

(countable) A description of the form and structure of something.

Noun

(anatomies)

The art of studying the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dissection.

The science that deals with the form and structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure or organization.

* (John Dryden)

Let the muscles be well inserted and bound together, according to the knowledge of them which is given us by anatomy .

Animal anatomy'' is also called zomy or zootomy; ''vegetable anatomy,'' phytotomy; and ''human anatomy, anthropotomy.

A treatise or book on anatomy.

The act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts; analysis; as, the anatomy of a discourse.

(colloquial) The form of an individual, particularly a person, used in a tongue in cheek manner, as might be a term used by a medical professional, but in a markedly a less formal context, in which a touch of irony becomes apparent.

(archaic) A skeleton, or dead body.

*, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1 p.68:

So did the Ægyptians, who in the middest of their banquetings, and in the full of their greatest cheere, caused the anatomie of a dead man to be brought before them, as a memorandum and warning to their guests.

The physical or functional organization of an organism, or part of it.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= The machine of a new soul , passage=The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy . Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.}}