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transcendental anatomy (s) (noun) (no pl)
The study of the anatomy of organisms in the light of deductions and theories concerning the possible variants derived from hypothetical ancestral forms; philosophical anatomy: Transcendental anatomy used to be a form of comparative anatomy that looked for certain patterns and structures common in all living organisms in nature.
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