peristyle (medicine) and anatomy (iou)

peristyle (medicine)

peristyle

A range of columns with their entablature, etc.; specifically, a complete system of columns, whether on all sides of a court, or surrounding a building, such as the cella of a temple. Used in the former sense, it gives name to the larger and inner court of a Roman dwelling, the peristyle. See Colonnade.

Origin: L. Peristylum, Gr,; about + a column: cf. F. Peristyle.

Source: Websters Dictionary

anatomy (iou)

anatomy noun. LME.
[Old & mod. French anatomie from late Latin anatomia from Greek, formed as ANA- + -TOMY.]
The science of the structure of the bodies of humans, animals, and plants; a treatise in this field. LME.
MORBID anatomy.
C. P. Snow The anatomy they learn is sheer unscientific nonsense.
Anatomical structure. LME.
A body or part anatomized; a subject for dissection. L15-M18.
The artificial separation of the parts of a human, animal, or vegetable body, in order to discover their position, structure, and relations; dissection. M16.
Addison Curious observations which he had lately made in an anatomy of an human body.
fig. Detailed examination or analysis; structure, organization. M16.
Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy: what it is [etc.]. A. Sampson Anatomy of Britain.
A model or drawing of the human body as dissected. M16-M18.
A skeleton; a corpse of skin and bone, a mummy; an emaciated being. Cf. ATOMY noun1. arch. L16.
Disraeli Death in the Gothic form of a gaunt anatomy parading through the universe. Carlyle The thread-paper Duchess of Kendal..poor old anatomy. fig.: J. A. Froude What lean and shrivelled anatomies the best of such descriptions would seem!
The bodily frame. Chiefly joc. L16.
J. G. Lockhart Brown leathern gaiters buttoned upon his nether anatomy. T. H. White You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies.
Chemical analysis. E17-E18.

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