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anatomically correct

anatomically correct adjective: accurately depicting or replicating the body, or a body part, of a human being or animal.

Adjective

anatomically correct (not generally comparable, comparative more anatomically correct, superlative most anatomically correct)

  1. (not comparable, usually) Accurately depicting or replicating the body, or a body part, of a human being or animal.
    • Banked bone can also influence the contour of a facial restoration, according to Dr. Sachs, because it is more anatomically correct than a metal prosthesis.1987 January 11, Cheryl P. Weinstock, “New Bone Bank Aids Hip Surgery”, in New York Times, retrieved 04 Aug 2013
  2. (euphemistic, not comparable, usually) Possessing a physiologically accurate representation of sex organs.
    • Prosecutors in the Glen Ridge sex assault trial asked today for special courtroom arrangements . . . to allow her to use five anatomically correct dolls when she describes the episode to the jury.1992 December 2, Robert Hanley, “Special Steps Asked for Figure Central to Sex Assault Trial”, in New York Times, retrieved 04 Aug 2013
    • Aldrich goes on for five pages about the December day in 1994 when he helped decorate the White House Christmas tree with an anatomically correct gingerbread man.2001 June 24, Margaret Carlson, “New Lows for the News”, in Time

Forms of anatomically correct

comparativemore anatomically correct
superlativemost anatomically correct

Questions about anatomically correct

What does anatomically correct mean?
Anatomically correct means accurately depicting or replicating the body, or a body part, of a human being or animal.
What part of speech is anatomically correct?
Anatomically correct is an adjective.

Words near anatomically correct in the dictionary

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

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