zootomichttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zootomic_adj%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezootomic, adj.
Revised 2017

zootomicadjective

Now historical and rare.
  1. 1801–
    Of or relating to zootomy; = zootomical adj.
    1. 1801
      The second treatise, on the method of comparative Anatomy and Physiology, is followed by remarks on a Literary Zootomic Rarity.
      Anti-Jacobin Rev. & Magazine December 464
    2. 1844
      I directed my attention to it in making some recent zootomic investigations.
      Veterinarian vol. 17 205
    3. 1896
      Extrinsic toponyms.., e.g. posterior and anterior, superior and inferior, and their derivatives, compounds, and abbreviations, should have significations zoötomic rather than anthropotomic.
      Journal of Comparative Neurology vol. 6 279
    4. 1913
      One of our younger distinguished medical men has, while engaged in zootomic research on the skerries near Stockholm, discovered a new species of the family Clypeaster.
      E. Schleussner, translation of A. Strindberg, Red Room xxvi. 294
    5. 1970
      Boeck..founded both the zootomic museum and the physiological collection.
      Hist. Med. Education (UCLA Forum Med. Science) 295

Originally published as part of the entry for zootomy, n.

zootomic, adj. was revised in June 2017.

zootomic, adj. was last modified in July 2023.