Noun

(en noun)

Form, as depending on the relative disposition of the parts of a thing's shape; figure; form factor.

Relative position or aspect of the planets; the face of the horoscope, according to the relative positions of the planets at any time.

The way things are arranged or put together in order to achieve a result.

(physics, chemistry) The arrangement of electrons in an atom, molecule, or other physical structure like a crystal.

A finite set of points and lines (and sometimes planes), generally with equal numbers of points per line and equal numbers of lines per point.

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.}}