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How to pronounce skeletal in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, wasted


a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys.
Type Words
Derivation skeleton


the skeletal system.
skeletal bones.
skeletal muscles.

Examples of skeletal

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The skeletal details from Lannan's first day this season resurfaced on his last.
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The area was near a site where native work crews found skeletal remains in 1940.
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Longer bones allow for more skeletal and muscular support of a glider's airfoil.
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And when food is scarce, leptin increases its own production in skeletal muscle.
From the nature.com
Researchers studying skeletal remains of wild primates face a similar challenge.
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With Coronacollina acula, however, skeletal parts were found to have fallen off.
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The heart form, ACTC, is also the dominant form in skeletal muscle of the fetus.
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Esser's research focuses on adaptation of skeletal muscle in health and disease.
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A skeletal mob of concentration-camp prisoners shuffle wearily across the stage.
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More examples
  • Of or relating to or forming or attached to a skeleton; "the skeletal system"; "skeletal bones"; "skeletal muscles"
  • Bony: very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"
  • The skeleton (gr. skeletos = "dried-body", "mummy"), is in biology and in the anatomy the body part that forms the supporting structure of an organism. ...
  • Of, or relating to the skeleton; haggard, cadaverous, emaciated or gaunt
  • Some early motors, especially Century, were mostly open cast iron enclosures. The housing resemble a skeleton, as they were more open than closed.
  • Premature closure of epiphyses in children (see PRECAUTIONS , Pediatric Use ), muscle cramps.
  • Composed of bones and cartilage
  • Pertaining to the skeleton.