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skeletal

[ UK /skˈɛlɪtə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˈskɛɫətəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. of or relating to or forming or attached to a skeleton
    skeletal bones
    the skeletal system
    skeletal muscles
  2. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
    a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys
    kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration
    small pinched faces
    eyes were haggard and cavernous

How To Use skeletal In A Sentence

  • This indicates a level of plasma membrane invagination comparable with mammalian skeletal muscle.
  • Skeletal tuberculosis is a haematogenous infection and affects almost all bones.
  • The calcified matrix of bone consists of cavities known as lacunae that are connected via a network of canals known as canaliculi, which carries interstitial fluid through the skeletal system. News from The Scientist
  • Details of how the Pond of Safety Forest will be managed are still being hammered into place, but a skeletal framework is clear.
  • Leg length discrepancies have been implicated in a number of musculoskeletal hip and leg injuries.
  • During that time her health has declined due to muscular and skeletal problems resulting from her own thalidomide disabilities. Times, Sunday Times
  • His skeletal appearance belies a mischievous sense of humour. Times, Sunday Times
  • Trigger points are discrete, focal, hyperirritable spots located in a taut band of skeletal muscle.
  • I'm just blown away by the audacity the team has to toss around the word "musculoskeletal" and expect us to go along with it. WNYMedia
  • In particular, where a stimulus is applied to the most rostrally situated regions, the cat adopts the normal posture for the physiological deposition of faeces; therefore the stimulus activates the skeletal musculature, which is innervated by the cerebrospinal axis, and which is also responsible for the abdominal muscular pressure. Walter Hess - Nobel Lecture
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