How to Use anatomical in a Sentence

anatomical

adjective
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  • The anatomical foot box is roomy, the full-length zipper didn’t catch, and the hood sealed out drafts.
    — Outside Online, 15 May 2018
  • Nothing is off limits, from the goofy to the anatomical.
    — Ann Lien, House Beautiful, 10 Apr. 2019
  • The rest of the film unfolds with the highs and lows of pregnancy, with no anatomical stone left unturned.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 21 May 2024
  • The focus would be on the rare, the terrifying and the anatomical outliers.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 May 2021
  • The rest of the slides show more of the anatomical details of creating Musgraves's wax figure.
    — Marci Robin, Allure, 15 Mar. 2020
  • Its tubular siphon, which can grow to be 3 feet long, is an easy target for anatomical jokes.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 27 Aug. 2019
  • There's no single anatomical structure that is the G-spot.
    — Gigi Engle, SELF, 31 Aug. 2018
  • The cover art for this hard-to-find copy is said to contain a male anatomical part drawn into a sea castle.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Feb. 2021
  • Brewer’s Best has a firm malt backbone, as the cliché goes, and a firm malt rib cage, nervous system, sinews, the whole anatomical lot.
    — Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Because the barite gave the ichthyosaur’s bones a bright glow, the team was able to observe anatomical features that had been overlooked or obscured.
    — Jack Tamisiea, New York Times, 1 June 2023
  • Truman and his team wanted to know, in great anatomical detail, how much of the brain of a larva persists in that of an adult fly.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The book is arranged by anatomical part, and Gross details the function each part carries out.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Included in the anatomical arsenal were tails that evolved to act like flails, spikes, bats and clubs.
    — Nicholas St. Fleur, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2018
  • Threaded through the show are Renaissance prints and drawings that attest to the growth of the anatomical sciences.
    — Mary Tompkins Lewis, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2018
  • But the electrical field seemed to vary unpredictably across the brain's anatomical folds.
    — Ingrid Wickelgren, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2024
  • But the electrical field seemed to vary unpredictably across the brain's anatomical folds.
    — Ingrid Wickelgren, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Some of the largest and most ferocious dinosaurs of all time had an anatomical secret to their success.
    — Riley Black, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The other is a valve system—that is, an anatomical flap somewhere in the body that, when shut, can keep lymph from flowing willy-nilly.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Jan. 2020
  • Krakow added an anatomical heart emoji alongside the snap.
    — Francesca Gariano, Peoplemag, 3 Aug. 2024
  • To be fair, a lot of women might not be clear on this particular anatomical point.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2020
  • It’s not a term—nor an anatomical designation—that anyone gave much thought to a few years ago.
    — April Long, Town & Country, 26 Jan. 2023
  • From an anatomical perspective, not all women are built the same.
    — Sandra Rose Salathe, Flow Space, 9 Aug. 2024
  • The anatomical insole has extra arch and heel support to prevent foot pain.
    — Emma Seymour, Good Housekeeping, 29 July 2022
  • Except the carrot looked more like an anatomical heart, and the blood certainly wasn’t helping.
    — Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2019
  • But in Anantharaman’s work, the joy of being young and alive is frozen in time through anatomical specificity and an artful eye.
    — Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Per a 2018 study, the secret to that powerful punch seems to arise not from bulky muscles but from the spring-loaded anatomical structure of the shrimp's arms, akin to a bow and arrow.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 Mar. 2020
  • Like most fossil hominins, the species was a mix of apelike and humanlike anatomical traits.
    — Lydia Pyne, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2018
  • An udder and nipples are among the anatomical evidence that this is a female.
    — Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 17 Sep. 2024
  • The ancient practice involves the insertion of thin needles through the skin on specific anatomical points of the body.
    — Donna M. Owens, Baltimore Sun, 9 Apr. 2022
  • No feathers were found with the skeleton itself, but anatomical clues on the dinosaur’s arms indicate that the reptile had at least a partial coating of feathers.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Sep. 2024

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