Zootomy

Zootomy ( Greek ) is an outdated term in zoology for the science of the anatomy of (vertebrate) animals. The corresponding academic subject is called veterinary anatomy at universities today.

The term was used as a contrast to anthropotomy (human anatomy), with which zootomy makes up anatomy, or phytotomy , the theory of the structure of plants. A scientist in this area could be described as a zootome or an animal dissector .

One of the first fundamental works on this subject which is Zootomia Democritaea (1645) of the Neapolitan anatomist Marco Aurelio Severino to call (1580-1656) in which the ratio of Zootomie the anatomy of the human is described.

The term zootomy in the sense of the name of the 19th century, translated as comparative anatomy , goes back to Johann Friedrich Meckel the Younger (1781–1833) and Hermann Friedrich Stannius (1808–1883).

literature

• Berthold Hatschek , Carl Isidor Cori : Elementary course in zootomy: in fifteen lectures. 1st edition. Bibliobazaar, 2009, ISBN 978-1-113-69892-6 . (on-line)
• HF Stannius: Manual of the anatomy of the vertebrates. Volume 1, Veit, 1854.
• Carl Theodor Ernst von Siebold , HF Stannius: Handbook of Zootomy Volume 2, Veit, 1854.
• Marco Aurelio Severino: Zootomia Democritea. 1645.
• JF Meckel (d. Younger): System of the comparative anatomy . Rengerische Buchhandlung, Halle 1821–1833.