ornithotomy
(ɔːnɪˈθɒtəmɪ)
[f. ornitho- + Gr. -τοµια cutting: see -tomy.]
Dissection of birds; the anatomy of birds.
| 1854 Owen Skel. & Teeth in Circ. Sc., Organ. Nat. (1865) II. 73/1 An additional specific term in ornithotomy. |
So ornithoˈtomical a., of or pertaining to ornithotomy; orniˈthotomist, one who practises the dissection, or studies the anatomy, of birds.
| 1875 W. K. Parker in Encycl. Brit. III. 728/1 The merest abstract of most of our present ornithotomical knowledge. 1885 Newton Ibid. XVIII. 41/2 To harmonize the views of ornithotomists with those taken by the ornithologists who only study the exterior. |