zootomyhttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zootomy_n%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezootomy, n.
Revised 2017

zootomynoun

Now historical.
  1. 1663–
    The study of the anatomy of animals, comparative anatomy; dissection of the bodies of animals.
    1. 1663
      The frame of the parts is so like,..that he that is moderately but moderately skilled in Andratomy (as some of the Moderns call the Dissection of Mans Body, to distinguish it from Zootomy, as they name the Dissections of the Bodies of other Animals), may, with due diligence and industry,..improve his Anatomical knowledge.
      R. Boyle, Some Considerations Usefulnesse Experimental Natural Philosophy ii. i. 11
    2. 1697
      Zootomy is either for compleating natural History,..or for the better Attainment of the Cure of Diseases.
      Philosophical Transactions 1695–7 (Royal Society) vol. 19 558
    3. 1797
      The cook..lives in East Smithfield, where he exercises the trade of zootomy.
      S. James, Narrative of Voyage 156
    4. 1870
      To combine the concrete facts of Zootomy with the outlines of systematic Classification.
      G. Rolleston, Forms of Animal Life Preface p. v
    5. 1873
      This lower jaw—or, as it is called in zootomy, mandible.
      St. G. Mivart, Lessons in Elementary Anatomy iii. 74
    6. 1875
      [Anatomy] resolves itself into..Animal Anatomy or Zootomy,..and Vegetable Anatomy or Phytotomy.
      W. Turner in Encyclopædia Britannica vol. I. 799/1
    7. 1988
      Brühl, a prominent comparative anatomist and professor of zootomy at the University of Vienna, was a gripping popular lecturer.
      P. Gay, Freud i. 24
    8. 2000
      Andreas Holger Maehle..places Severino in the context of the revival of zootomy and animal experimentation but ignores his specific background.
      Isis vol. 91 467 (note)

zootomy, n. was revised in June 2017.

zootomy, n. was last modified in July 2023.