Jeffrey Kluger

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.

American Writer

Jeanne Marie Laskas

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.

Ayelet Waldman

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.

Israeli Novelist

Nate Powell

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.

American Artist

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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.

American Architect

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.

Alice Oswald

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.

British Poet

Christopher Guest

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.

British Director

Marie Helvin

For modern fashion designers, bones are beautiful. I don't know why, but so many people are obsessed with the skeletal look.

American Model

John Cooper Clarke

I had TB as a boy. They said my skeletal frame never developed properly.

English Poet

Used in biology or medicine to talk about bones and body structures.

Biological Context

'Skeletal' indicates support like bones within a body.

Physical Support

Can refer metaphorically to supportive structures in various contexts.

Not Always Literal

Creates a strong visual image of extreme thinness.

Visual Impact

Often implies poor health or malnutrition. Use compassionately.

Negative Connotation

Avoid using 'skeletal' to describe someone's physique in casual conversation.

Not for Description

Highlights the lack of detail or complexity in a plan, structure, etc.

Simplicity Emphasized

Can suggest a starting point that will be developed further.

Foundation First

While the term is technical, it's also used informally to describe something basic.

Informal Usage

 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

Sleepy Harbour Seals and...

 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

Reimagining Dinosaurs PIPE...

 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

How vultures can help...

 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;

How Finding This Human...

 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.

Why healthy bones are...

 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,

What we didn't know...

 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.

Secrets of the X...

 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.

How your muscular system...

 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

When technology...

 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

Skeletal

Biological Context

Physical Support

Not Always Literal

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