Autonomous vs Anatomy - What's the difference?
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Self-governing. Intelligent, sentient, self-aware, thinking, feeling, Governing independently.
Acting on one's own or independently; of a child, acting without being governed by parental or guardian rules.
(Celtic linguistics, of a verb form) Used with no subject, indicating an unknown or unspecified agent; used in similar situations as the passive in English (the difference being that the theme in the English passive construction is the subject, while in the Celtic autonomous construction the theme is the object and there is no subject).
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.
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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.
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The physical or functional organization of an organism, or part of it.
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As an adjective autonomous
is self-governing intelligent, sentient, self-aware, thinking, feeling, governing independently.As a noun anatomy is
the art of studying the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dissection.autonomous
English
Adjective
(head)Synonyms
* (governing independently) sovereign, self-governing * (acting on ones own behalf) selfstanding, self-directedAntonyms
* heteronomousDerived terms
* autonomously * semiautonomousSee also
* autonomous area * autonomous navigationanatomy
English
(wikipedia anatomy)Noun
(anatomies)- 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.
- 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 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.}}