There is one meaning in OED's entry for the adverb zootomically. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.
The earliest known use of the adverb zootomically is in the 1840s.
OED's earliest evidence for zootomically is from 1849, in the writing of Richard Owen, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist.
Nearby entries
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- zootheist, n.1879–
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- zoothome, n.1872–
- zootic, adj.1816–
- zootokon, n.1661
- zootomic, adj.1801–
- zootomical, adj.1799–
- zootomically, adv.1849–
- zootomist, n.1663–
- zootomy, n.1663–
- zootoxin, n.1906–
- zootrophy, n.1877–
- zoot suit, n.1942–
- zoot-suited, adj.1942–
- zoot-suiter, n.1942–
- zooty, adj.1942–
- zootype, n.1883–
- zootypic, adj.1853–
1849–
As regards zootomy.
Stressed as ˌzooˈtomically.
1849
The investigation of the whole of this vast subject, zootomically.
R. Owen in Todd's Cyclopædia of Anatomy & Physiology vol. IV. 873/1
1890
Such being the position of apes as a whole, they are zootomically divisible into a number of more and more subordinate groups.
Encyclopædia Britannica vol. II. 148/2
1994
He looked (zootomically) as if he had been filleted.
T. Fischer, Thought Gang 164
Originally published as part of the entry for zootomical, adj.
zootomical, adj. was revised in June 2017.
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