[a. Fr. anatomisme, f. anatomie ANATOMY: see -ISM.]
1. Analysis or display of anatomic structure or features.
1878. Spectator, 27 April, 538/1. The stretched and vivid anatomism of their [i.e., the French] great figure-painters.
2. The doctrine that the phenomena of life are accounted for by the anatomical structure of living organisms. (Cf. ANIMISM.)
1860. in Fowler, Med. Voc.
1879. in Syd. Soc. Lex.
