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However, the cognitive pathway from anatomical understanding to clinical application is rarely linear or uniform. This article proposes a conceptual framework in which semantic distance\u2014the conceptual separation between anatomical knowledge and clinical endpoints\u2014operates at three analytically distinct levels: (1) the learner's internal cognitive network, shaped by prior experience and schema formation; (2) the structural distance within curriculum maps, ontologies, or knowledge graphs; and (3) the distributional proximity within large language model (LLM) embedding spaces, which may serve as a scalable computational proxy indicator for the first two levels. These three levels must be explicitly distinguished if semantic distance is to function as a useful construct in anatomy education. To illustrate the framework's utility, three worked examples are developed\u2014the femoral nerve, coronary circulation, and spinal cord anatomy\u2014accompanied by a preliminary computational illustration of embedding distances rather than an empirically validated diagnostic instrument. A practical educator workflow is proposed through which computational signals may be translated into targeted curriculum decisions. The article positions semantic distance metrics as complementary to curriculum network analytics and highlights how cross\u2010domain transitions (from anatomy through physiology and pathology to clinical presentation) represent qualitatively different educational problems requiring different interventions. 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