Skeletal
adjective
Relating to the skeleton, the framework of hard parts (often bones) that supports the body of an animal.
Fossils have given us a lot of information about the skeletal structure of dinosaurs.
Often appears as...
- skeletal system
- skeletal muscle
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Academic
adjective
Very thin, as if one could see the bones underneath the skin.
After weeks of starvation, the survivors of the shipwreck were skeletal.
Often appears as...
- skeletal figure
- skeletal frame
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Disapproving
adjective
Having a basic or simple structure, stripped down to the bare essentials.
His skeletal notes from the lecture barely made sense to him a week later.
Often appears as...
- skeletal outline
- skeletal structure
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Academic
adjective
Relating to the skeleton, the framework of hard parts (often bones) that supports the body of an animal.
Fossils have given us a lot of information about the skeletal structure of dinosaurs.
Often appears as...
- skeletal system
- skeletal muscle
Usage tips
Academic
adjective
Very thin, as if one could see the bones underneath the skin.
After weeks of starvation, the survivors of the shipwreck were skeletal.
Often appears as...
- skeletal figure
- skeletal frame
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
Having a basic or simple structure, stripped down to the bare essentials.
His skeletal notes from the lecture barely made sense to him a week later.
Often appears as...
- skeletal outline
- skeletal structure
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Biological Context
Used in biology or medicine to talk about bones and body structures.
She is studying the skeletal system of birds for her thesis.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Support
'Skeletal' indicates support like bones within a body.
The building's design includes a skeletal steel frame.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Literal
Can refer metaphorically to supportive structures in various contexts.
The book provides a skeletal overview of European history.
Pro Tip 1/3Biological Context
Used in biology or medicine to talk about bones and body structures.
She is studying the skeletal system of birds for her thesis.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Support
'Skeletal' indicates support like bones within a body.
The building's design includes a skeletal steel frame.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Literal
Can refer metaphorically to supportive structures in various contexts.
The book provides a skeletal overview of European history.
Pro Tip 1/3Biological Context
Used in biology or medicine to talk about bones and body structures.
She is studying the skeletal system of birds for her thesis.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Support
'Skeletal' indicates support like bones within a body.
The building's design includes a skeletal steel frame.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Literal
Can refer metaphorically to supportive structures in various contexts.
The book provides a skeletal overview of European history.
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Sleepy Harbour Seals and...
skeletal elements found in the fore limbs of land mammals they're comical stubbornness doesn't just make them great scratching aids but allows the flippers to conform to their bodies significantly reducing underwater drag powerful webbed hind flippers propel and steer them through the water large oily
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Reimagining Dinosaurs PIPE...
paleontology um as nizam said there's there's still i mean every day for example today i got a message from my lab they're in the field at the moment and they found new master sponsors fossils um and so we are finding things all the time and not not just uh skeletal fossils there's also trackways
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How vultures can help...
Therefore, the goal is to get forensic scientists to focus on vulture evidence and to get law enforcement to consider vulture scavenging and a possible recent death when skeletal remains are found. Let's get back to the importance of the kidnapping case. I responded to the detectives
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How Finding This Human...
And what we found was totally unexpected; a combination of features that we couldn't possibly have imagined and couldn't have predicted in advance. What this meant, though, was that our understanding of skeletal shape and species identification kind of had to be rethought;
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Why healthy bones are...
that form the main part of the skeletal system. They're the support structure or cage that protects our organs, but they do so much more. They work with our muscles to move our bodies, they store important minerals, they produce hormones, and they even make our blood.
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What we didn't know...
that just cries out for a skeletal system -- not one like this one, but one like this one -- because, functionally, a skeleton is any system that supports tissue and transmits forces. And I already knew that animals like this earthworm,
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Secrets of the X...
The X chromosome, on the other hand, contains important genes for things other than sex determination or reproduction, like nervous system development, skeletal muscle function, and the receptors in the eyes that detect green light.
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How your muscular system...
Others may be less so, like the buccinator, a muscle that attaches your cheek to your teeth, or the body's tiniest skeletal muscle, a one-millimeter-long tissue fragment called the stapedius that's nestled deep inside the ear.
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When technology...
start-up called epi bones where we apply these same principles to developing living human personalized bone grafts we hope these living bone grafts can someday revolutionize the world of skeletal reconstruction and I've often
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Human Body 101 PIPE...
create an infrastructure that facilitates the other systems the Adult skeletal system is a framework of over 200 bones They hold the body together give it shape and protect its organs and tissues
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Sleepy Harbour Seals and...
skeletal elements found in the fore limbs of land mammals they're comical stubbornness doesn't just make them great scratching aids but allows the flippers to conform to their bodies significantly reducing underwater drag powerful webbed hind flippers propel and steer them through the water large oily
Video examples
Reimagining Dinosaurs PIPE...
paleontology um as nizam said there's there's still i mean every day for example today i got a message from my lab they're in the field at the moment and they found new master sponsors fossils um and so we are finding things all the time and not not just uh skeletal fossils there's also trackways
Video examples
How vultures can help...
Therefore, the goal is to get forensic scientists to focus on vulture evidence and to get law enforcement to consider vulture scavenging and a possible recent death when skeletal remains are found. Let's get back to the importance of the kidnapping case. I responded to the detectives
Video examples
How Finding This Human...
And what we found was totally unexpected; a combination of features that we couldn't possibly have imagined and couldn't have predicted in advance. What this meant, though, was that our understanding of skeletal shape and species identification kind of had to be rethought;
Video examples
Why healthy bones are...
that form the main part of the skeletal system. They're the support structure or cage that protects our organs, but they do so much more. They work with our muscles to move our bodies, they store important minerals, they produce hormones, and they even make our blood.
Video examples
What we didn't know...
that just cries out for a skeletal system -- not one like this one, but one like this one -- because, functionally, a skeleton is any system that supports tissue and transmits forces. And I already knew that animals like this earthworm,
Video examples
Secrets of the X...
The X chromosome, on the other hand, contains important genes for things other than sex determination or reproduction, like nervous system development, skeletal muscle function, and the receptors in the eyes that detect green light.
Video examples
How your muscular system...
Others may be less so, like the buccinator, a muscle that attaches your cheek to your teeth, or the body's tiniest skeletal muscle, a one-millimeter-long tissue fragment called the stapedius that's nestled deep inside the ear.
Video examples
When technology...
start-up called epi bones where we apply these same principles to developing living human personalized bone grafts we hope these living bone grafts can someday revolutionize the world of skeletal reconstruction and I've often
Video examples
Human Body 101 PIPE...
create an infrastructure that facilitates the other systems the Adult skeletal system is a framework of over 200 bones They hold the body together give it shape and protect its organs and tissues
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Jeffrey Kluger
American Writer
The brain sits snugly inside the skull, but it's not a completely flush fit - there is still a layer of fluid between bone and soft tissue that serves as a natural shock absorber. Some shocks, however, can't be absorbed, and when the head gets clobbered too hard, the brain can twist or torque or rattle around inside its skeletal casing.
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Jeanne Marie Laskas
American Writer
Getting Richard Norris his new face wasn't easy. For starters, doctors needed a donor who wasn't just a favorable blood match but also had the proper skeletal features and skin color - they calculated only a 14 percent chance they'd find one. Then there was the epic surgery that took a team of 150 people.
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Ayelet Waldman
Israeli Novelist
I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I do try. I make sure that the women whose looks I admire all have sufficient fat reserves to survive a famine, and I make a lot of snide comments about the skeletal likes of Lara Flynn Boyle and Paris Hilton.
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Nate Powell
American Artist
We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
American Architect
Reinforced concrete buildings are by nature skeletal buildings. No noodles nor armoured turrets. A construction of girders that carry the weight, and walls that carry no weight. That is to say, buildings consisting of skin and bones.
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Jeffrey Kluger
American Writer
Kids whose puberty begins too soon face not just psychological risks, but physical ones too, with an increased likelihood of cancer, as well as skeletal changes that could prevent them from attaining their full adult height.
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Alice Oswald
British Poet
Topsoil is a place of digestion. It sucks and chews things into smaller pieces. When it's hungry, it turns grey and stony; when it's thirsty, it opens thousands of cracked lips. Subsoil is more skeletal: it doesn't digest.
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Christopher Guest
British Director
You can't improvise without a skeletal structure; you can't just go in and start talking. This is a very misunderstood craft because no one else makes movies like this.
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Marie Helvin
American Model
For modern fashion designers, bones are beautiful. I don't know why, but so many people are obsessed with the skeletal look.
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John Cooper Clarke
English Poet
I had TB as a boy. They said my skeletal frame never developed properly.
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Jeffrey Kluger
American Writer
The brain sits snugly inside the skull, but it's not a completely flush fit - there is still a layer of fluid between bone and soft tissue that serves as a natural shock absorber. Some shocks, however, can't be absorbed, and when the head gets clobbered too hard, the brain can twist or torque or rattle around inside its skeletal casing.
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Jeanne Marie Laskas
American Writer
Getting Richard Norris his new face wasn't easy. For starters, doctors needed a donor who wasn't just a favorable blood match but also had the proper skeletal features and skin color - they calculated only a 14 percent chance they'd find one. Then there was the epic surgery that took a team of 150 people.
Quote examples
Ayelet Waldman
Israeli Novelist
I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I do try. I make sure that the women whose looks I admire all have sufficient fat reserves to survive a famine, and I make a lot of snide comments about the skeletal likes of Lara Flynn Boyle and Paris Hilton.
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Nate Powell
American Artist
We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
Quote examples
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
American Architect
Reinforced concrete buildings are by nature skeletal buildings. No noodles nor armoured turrets. A construction of girders that carry the weight, and walls that carry no weight. That is to say, buildings consisting of skin and bones.
Quote examples
Jeffrey Kluger
American Writer
Kids whose puberty begins too soon face not just psychological risks, but physical ones too, with an increased likelihood of cancer, as well as skeletal changes that could prevent them from attaining their full adult height.
Quote examples
Alice Oswald
British Poet
Topsoil is a place of digestion. It sucks and chews things into smaller pieces. When it's hungry, it turns grey and stony; when it's thirsty, it opens thousands of cracked lips. Subsoil is more skeletal: it doesn't digest.
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Christopher Guest
British Director
You can't improvise without a skeletal structure; you can't just go in and start talking. This is a very misunderstood craft because no one else makes movies like this.
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Marie Helvin
American Model
For modern fashion designers, bones are beautiful. I don't know why, but so many people are obsessed with the skeletal look.
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John Cooper Clarke
English Poet
I had TB as a boy. They said my skeletal frame never developed properly.
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