Anatomy vs. Physiology

Anatomynoun

The art of studying the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy.

Anatomynoun

The science that deals with the form and structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure or organization.

Anatomynoun

(countable) A treatise or book on anatomy.

Anatomynoun

(by extension) The act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts.

Anatomynoun

(colloquial) The form of an individual.

Anatomynoun

(euphemism) The human body, especially in reference to the private parts.

Anatomynoun

(archaic) A skeleton, or dead body.

Anatomynoun

The physical or functional organization of an organism, or part of it.

Anatomynoun

The art of dissecting, or artificially separating the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dissection.

Anatomynoun

The science which treats of the structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure or organization.

Anatomynoun

A treatise or book on anatomy.

Anatomynoun

The act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts; analysis; as, the anatomy of a discourse.

Anatomynoun

A skeleton; anything anatomized or dissected, or which has the appearance of being so.

Anatomynoun

the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals

Anatomynoun

alternative names for the body of a human being;

Anatomynoun

a detailed analysis;

Anatomy

Anatomy (Greek anatomē, 'dissection') is the branch of biology concerned with the study of the structure of organisms and their parts. Anatomy is a branch of natural science which deals with the structural organization of living things.

Physiologynoun

A branch of biology that deals with the functions and activities of life or of living matter (as organs, tissues, or cells) and of the physical and chemical phenomena involved.

Physiologynoun

(obsolete) The study and description of natural objects; natural science.

Physiologynoun

The science which treats of the phenomena of living organisms; the study of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life.

Physiologynoun

A treatise on physiology.

Physiologynoun

the branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organisms

Physiologynoun

processes and functions of an organism

Physiology

Physiology (; from Ancient Greek φύσις (physis) 'nature, origin', and -λογία (-logia) 'study of') is the scientific study of functions and mechanisms in a living system. As a sub-discipline of biology, physiology focuses on how organisms, organ systems, individual organs, cells, and biomolecules carry out the chemical and physical functions in a living system.