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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
skeletal
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
muscle
▪ The inflammatory process was seen to extend into adjacent skeletal muscle and was consistent with a diagnosis of Riedel's thyroiditis.
▪ Consideration is given first to the anatomic arrangement of the nervous and skeletal muscle systems involved in this activity.
▪ Finally, we determined the activities of the respiratory chain enzymes in skeletal muscle.
▪ Another possibility is that caffeine affects skeletal muscles indirectly.
▪ Here the processes of breakdown are qualitatively similar to those in vertebrate skeletal muscle.
▪ Gap junctions are distributed in a wide variety of tissues, with the possible exceptions of adult skeletal muscles and most neurones.
▪ Their properties are in some ways intermediate between those of the skeletal muscles and the smooth muscles found in other phyla.
▪ Histologically they differ from skeletal muscle in having smaller fibres, linked by desmosomes and sometimes containing only one fibril.
remains
▪ Occasionally the silica-rich skeletal remains of single-celled marine organisms, diatoms, and of sponges occur in pottery.
▪ In shallow marine sediments from anywhere on the present Earth one might expect to find the skeletal remains and teeth of sharks.
▪ Her skeletal remains were found then.
▪ The handprints on the walls match the size of hands from skeletal remains of Paleolithic women.
▪ The remains, however, appear to be little more than hair and fragments of flesh covering ghastly skeletal remains.
structure
▪ It had no more than a skeletal structure and embraced liberals as well as socialists.
▪ However, most of these were skeletal structures with very few members.
▪ Between the fourth and eighth week all the main organs are formed together with the limbs and beginnings of skeletal structure.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Daly's skeletal remains were found almost a month later.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Even a skeletal list of the fundamentally important matters which we thus take for granted would be very long.
▪ Excavators have found skeletal and cremated remains in some megalithic structures, but by no means all.
▪ He ran a skeletal hand over the bristles of his hair.
▪ His studies would lead to the identification of several dozen other forms of dwarfism, or skeletal dysplasia.
▪ Robert Dornan of California run skeletal campaigns, and their staff could not be reached for this story.
▪ The central exhibit is a bright pink, skeletal temple in which the Prince's central advice to architects is enshrined.
▪ They run wild into the woods, filthy, skeletal and naked.
▪ They were skeletal and covered in mange.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Skeletal

Skeletal \Skel"e*tal\, a. Pertaining to the skeleton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
skeletal

1849, from skeleton + -al (1). Related: Skeletally.

Wiktionary
skeletal

a. 1 of, or relating to the skeleton 2 haggard, cadaverous, emaciated or gaunt

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skeletal

  1. adj. of or relating to or forming or attached to a skeleton; "the skeletal system"; "skeletal bones"; "skeletal muscles"

  2. 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" [syn: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, wasted]

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Usage examples of "skeletal".

The first set consists of reports of anomalously old artifacts and human skeletal remains, most of which were discovered in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Kern craned his head to see Daile and Miltiades to his left, struggling in vain against the skeletal bonds.

The American Academy of Pediatrics generally recommends that doxycycline not be used in children under nine years old because the drug may retard skeletal growth in infants and cause discolored teeth in infants and children.

Enlarged hearts, high-altitude edemas, skeletal dysplasia, acute leukemia, sterility, skin cancer.

Tall, skeletal, wreathed in glimmering rags, the ectoplasm emerged from the tunnel mouth.

Five points of scarlet flame flickered at the ends of his fingers, turning his flesh translucent, so that the fine bones were made visible, a skeletal hand enwreathed in fire.

It came to an easy stop in front of the skeletal remains of the main house, now a broken erector set of burned timbers and piles of wet, dirty ash.

The thing had gangling arms and hands with ebony talons, a skeletal torso with naked female breasts, coarse black hair that framed smoldering scarlet eyes.

Lord Gorrel repeated it several times, rolling it between his skeletal jaws.

There is much promise of deciphering the skeletal developments of primates through Homeobox genes.

Tom felt was connected to some skeletal remains found in Nota County last spring.

The deciduous trees were always skeletal, the pines palsied, the willows wind-whipped and nubbly, the grass dun and crunchy underfoot, the water-rats always seeing the big drainage-picture first and gliding like night to the cement sides to flee.

A hand stretched out toward him, insubstantial as a skeletal leaf, and the chill increased, numbing his whole body.

It turned out to be true to its name--a wooden walkway winding through a desolate forest of skeletal ohia trees, the native Hawaiian trees that provided the magical lehua blossoms she had read about.

The spindly gray ohia trees along the sides of the road had not seemed so leering or so menacing before, not even when she saw them as only skeletal remains on Devastation Trail.