A person who specializes in or practices anthropotomy; an anatomist who studies human structure through dissection.
From 'anthropotomy' (human anatomy) + '-ist' (specialist). This term identified early anatomists who pioneered human dissection as a scientific practice.
Early anthropotomists like Andreas Vesalius were pioneering scientists who had to work in secret because dissecting human bodies was illegal or considered blasphemous—their courage launched modern medicine.
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