Word.ws English Dictionary

anatomically

anatomically adverb: pertaining to the anatomy.

Adverb

anatomically (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to the anatomy.
    • The cuirass of Roman muscled type is composed of an anatomically modeled breastplate and backplate, each made in one with a gorget […]1998, Stuart W. Pyhrr et al., Heroic Armor of the Italian Renaissance: Filippo Negroli and His Contemporaries, Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, page 285
    • The apparent absence of any apparent sexual or age-based divisions of labour contrasts strikingly with anatomically modern humans of the Pleistocene in which females appear to gracilize relatively quickly, implying perhaps a sex-based division of labour (Soffer 1994).2001 June 29, PB Pettitt, “Neanderthal lifecycles: Developmental and social phases in the lives of the last archaics”, in World archaeology, volume 31, number 3

Examples of anatomically in a sentence

  • In most birds, the lung is functionally and anatomically subdivided into paleopulmo and neopulmo portions.2015 December 10, “Osteological and Soft-Tissue Evidence for Pneumatization in the Cervical Column of the Ostrich ( Struthio camelus ) and...
  • These creatures are so anatomically similar it’s proven hard to figure out their relationships, both with one another and with later carnivoran groups.2016 November 26, Elsa Panciroli, “Rifling through the 'wastebaskets' of palaeontology reveals surprises”, in The Guardian:

Origin of anatomically

From anatomical + -ly.

Words formed from anatomically

Questions about anatomically

What does anatomically mean?
Anatomically means pertaining to the anatomy.
How do you use anatomically in a sentence?
In most birds, the lung is functionally and anatomically subdivided into paleopulmo and neopulmo portions.
What part of speech is anatomically?
Anatomically is an adverb.

Words near anatomically in the dictionary

  1. anatomical
  2. anatomical dead space
  3. anatomical position
  4. anatomical snuffbox
  5. anatomical snuffboxes
  6. anatomically
  7. anatomically correct
  8. anatomicity
  9. anatomico-
  10. anatomicobiological
  11. anatomicomedical

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: anatomically (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “anatomically.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/anatomically. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.