“As if a man should dissect his own body, and read the anatomy lecture.”
— Andrew Marvell · The poems and letters of Andrew Marvell (1667
anatomy, n.I. The process, subjects, and products of dissection of the body. 1.a. The artificial separation of the different parts of a human body or animal (or more generally of any organized body), in order to discover their position, structure, and economy; dissection.
