zootomy

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

ZOOTOMY, noun [Gr., an animal; to cut.] Anatomy; particularly, the dissecting of bodies of beasts or brute animals; comparative anatomy, or the anatomy of brute animals.
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