Anatomy and Related Anatomical Terms
(the structure of organisms from the smallest components of cells to the biggest organs and their relationships to other organs especially of the human body)
Diseases affect the anatomy and changes in the anatomical structure can cause diseases.
2. The application of the principles of anatomical structure and the exhibition of anatomical detail: Anatomism can be exemplified by paintings, sculptures, and other art forms depicting the anatomy of a living being.
Anatomy is the science of the structural organization of any organism, whether plant or animal.
The macroscopic structural organization of a part or body is usually determined by means of dissection.
The term anatomy is almost a direct borrowing of the Greek anatome, because the Greeks were among the first known to systematically dissect the human body.
The Greek word is a compound of ana-, "up" + tome, "a cutting" and therefore the earlier anatomy was a "cutting up" and "dissection" remains even to this day the essential method of learning about the structure of the body.
The study of the human body was not very reliable during the so-called Dark Ages until Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564), a Flemish anatomist, revived the study of anatomy with his publication of De Humani Corporis Fabrica, "The Structure of the Human Body", in 1543.