NOUN
- the part of the skeleton that includes the pectoral girdle and the pelvic girdle and the upper and lower limbs
How To Use appendicular skeleton In A Sentence
- Nuclear medicine scintigraphy can image the entire axial and appendicular skeleton to detect distant sites of osseous metastases.
- the appendicular skeleton
- The somatic layer of the lateral plate gives rise to the appendicular skeleton and the connective tissue of the limbs and body wall.
- The skeletal system of trout and salmon consists of the skull, backbone, a set of bones called the appendicular skeleton, and the ribs and intermuscular bones. Trout and Salmon of North America
- The appendicular skeleton is also dependent on the stability of the axial skeleton, upon which it operates.
- Future exploration and quantification of the appendicular skeleton is necessary to complete the paleobiological and paleoecological picture of these giant herbivores.
