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ANATOMY

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Anatomy is the study of how living things--plants, animals, and people are built. The word comes from the Greek word, anatome, meaning ``to cut up.''

Dissecting, or cutting apart, dead human bodies was a crime in ancient times. In the 1st century a.d., Galen, a Greek doctor, dissected animals to study their parts. His writings on anatomy remained important until the 1400s. ...

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