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Definition: Skeletal |
SkeletalAdjective1. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "skeletal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
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Health | Having to do with the skeleton (boney part of the body). (references) |
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Skeletal muscles are striated muscles that are under voluntary control of the organism. Making up the large muscles masses, they are attached to the bones of the body and are utilized for locomotion and other movements. They have elongated, cylindrical shape, and are multinucleated. The nuclei of these muscles are located just under the plasma membrane, which vacates the central part of the muscle fiber for myofibrils. This unique arrangement of the nuclei allows for higher efficiency.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Skeletal muscle."
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Skeleton is also a winter sport: see skeleton (sport).In biology, the skeleton or skeletal system is the biological system providing support in living organisms. (By extension, non-biological outline structures such as gantries or buildings may also acquire skeletons.)
Skeletal systems are commonly divided into two types - external (an exoskeleton), and internal (an endoskeleton). The third skeletal system is called the hydrostatic skeleton which is hardly ever mentioned when speaking of the skeletal system because it lacks bones.
External skeletal systems are restricted in their maximum size so larger animals, such as the order chordata, have internal skeletal systems. Examples of this are found in arthropods and shellfish: the skeleton forms a hard shell-like covering protecting the internal organs.
The phylum arthropoda and mollusca have exoskeleton. In terms of growing its body, each phylum has its unique process. Most molluscs have calcareous shell that covers and protects their bodies. When they grow, the diameter the shell is enlarged without altering its coiled shape. The outer edge of the shell is added to its original one.
On the other hands, the arthropods must shed their exoskeleton to grow. At first, they swell inside their exoskeleton. As a certain period of time passed, the outer covering splits and the inner part of the body comes out. The process of shedding the exoskeleton is called molting. After that, the body quickly makes a new larger covering. In order to harden the skeleton, crustaceans such as crabs and lobsters deposit calcium salts into their cuticles that secreted by the epidermis.
An internal skeletal system consists of rigid structures within the body, moved by the muscular system. If the structures are mineralized or ossified, as they are in humans and other mammals, they are referred to as bones. Cartilage is another common component of skeletal systems, supporting and supplementing the skeleton. The human ear and nose are shaped by cartilage. Some organisms have a skeleton consisting entirely of cartilage and without any calcified bones at all, for example sharks. The bones or other rigid structures are connected by ligaments and connected to the muscular system via tendons.
The fully-developed human skeleton consists of 206 bones.
The hydrostatic skeleton is sort of like a water-filled balloon. Located internally in cnidarians and annelids, these animals can move by contracting its muscles in the wall of the fluid-filled pouch which creates pressure within the pouch which creates movements. These animals use the hydrostatic skeleton to change the shape of their body from long and skinny to short and stumpy.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Skeleton."
Synonyms: SkeletalSynonyms: bony (adj), cadaverous (adj), emaciated (adj), gaunt (adj), haggard (adj), pinched (adj), wasted (adj). (additional references) |
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Screenplays | I was probing to determine skeletal girth and muscle tone (Spies Like Us; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd, Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel) | |
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 | Gross fixed autopsy specimen of gastrocnemius muscle from patient who died of pseudohypertrophic muscular dystrophy, Duchenne type. Yellowish-white fat replaces normally reddish-brown skeletal muscle. Credit: CDC. |  | Closeup of coral polyp skeletal composition. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |
 | [Veterinary medicine: Skeletal anatomy of the horse]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | [Learning the skeletal structure] / P. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Stanley Simmons.. |
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| "Skeletal close up" by Ariel C. Commentary: "Skeletal close up." |
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Health | Joint pain and increasing skeletal deformities such as scoliosis are common. (references) | |
Pregnancy represents a significant physiological stress on maternal skeletal homeostasis. (references) | ||
This form of muscular dystrophy affects many body systems in addition to skeletal muscles. (references) | ||
Human Rights | Sri Lanka | In March 1999, municipal workers uncovered a pit near the Durraipa Stadium in Jaffna that contained the skeletal remains of several persons. (references) |
Haiti | In 1999 recent skeletal human remains were found at Titanyen (near Croix des Missions), an area that often served as a dumping ground for bodies of victims of political killings during the Duvalier and military eras. (references) | |
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Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Remember the skeletal prisoners, the mass graves, the campaign to rape and torture, the endless lines of refugees, the threat of a spreading war. |
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| "Skeletal" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.65% of the time. "Skeletal" is used about 283 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.65% | 282 | 17,376 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.35% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 283 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "skeletal": skeletal muscle ♦ Skeletal Muscle Ventricle ♦ skeletal musculature ♦ skeletal soil ♦ skeletal structure ♦ skeletal system ♦ skeletal torso harness. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "skeletal": musculo-skeletal. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "skeletal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | skeletik, në formë të skeletit. (various references) | |
Arabic | خاص بالهيكل العظمي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | скелетен, като скелет (skeleton). (various references) | |
Chinese | 骨骼 (skeleton). (various references) | |
Danish | skelet-. (various references) | |
Dutch | skeletachtig, skeletaal. (various references) | |
Farsi | کالبدی , وابسته به استخوان بندی , اسکلتی . (various references) | |
Finnish | skeletaalinen, luusto-, luuranko-. (various references) | |
French | squelettique (skeleton-like). (various references) | |
German | skelettartig, Skelett-. (various references) | |
Greek | σκελετικός. (various references) | |
Hebrew | שלדי, גרום (bony). (various references) | |
Hungarian | csontvázszerû, csontváz-, csontváz (anatomy, atomy, bag of bones, bony system, skeleton). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tentang kerangka. (various references) | |
Italian | scheletrico (skeleton). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 骨骼 (frame, framework, physique, skeletal structure), 骨格筋 (skeletal muscle). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | こっかくきん (skeletal muscle), こっかく (build, frame, framework, physique, skeletal structure). (various references) | |
Korean | 골격. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eletalskay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | relativo a esqueleto, esquelético (bony, gaunt), esquelético. (various references) | |
Russian | скелетный. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | skeletni. (various references) | |
Spanish | esquelético (bony, rawboned). (various references) | |
Swedish | skelett-, grund- (basic, bottom, elementary, essential, fundamental), bas- (essential). (various references) | |
Thai | เกี่ยวกับโครงกระดูก. (various references) | |
Turkish | iskelet gibi (like a bag of bones, like a skeleton, rawboned, scraggy), iskelet (atomy, bones, carcase, carcass, frame, framework, outline, skeleton). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | скелетоподібная, скелетний. (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "skeletal": skeletally. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "skeletal": cytoskeletal, endoskeletal, exoskeletal, musculoskeletal, nonskeletal. (additional references) | |
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"Skeletal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: skeletals, skeltal. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "skeletal" (pronounced ske"lutul) |
| 5 | -l u t u l | nonvolatile, volatile. |
| 4 | -u t u l | capital, Capitol, congenital, digital, extramarital, genital, marital, occipital, orbital, parietal, pivotal, premarital, societal, vegetal, versatile. |
| 3 | -t u l | infantile, infertile, accidental, acquittal, anecdotal, artiodactyl, battle, beetle, belittle, betel, bicoastal, bottle, brattle, Bristol, brittle, brutal, butyl, Cantle, cattle, chattel, chortle, coastal, coincidental, committal, compartmental, consonantal, continental, crustal, crystal, dental, detrimental, developmental, disgruntle, dismantle, distal, ductile, elemental, embattle, entitle, environmental, experimental, fatal, fertile, fetal, fractal, frontal, fundamental, futile, gentle, glottal, governmental, horizontal, hospital, hostel, hostile, hurtle, immortal, immotile, incidental, incremental, spittle, startle, subtitle, subtle, supplemental, tactile, tattle, temperamental, instrumental, intercontinental, intergovernmental, judgmental, kettle, Kittel, Kittle, lentil, lintel, little, mantel, mantle, mental, metal, mettle, monumental, mortal, motile, Myrtle, Natal, neonatal, nettle, noncommittal, nonfatal, nongovernmental, occidental, oriental, ornamental, parental, pedestal, periodontal, petal, Pistil, pistol, portal, postal, postnatal, Pottle, prattle, prefrontal, prenatal, projectile, quintal, rattle, rebuttal, recital, rectal, regimental, rental, resettle, scuttle, sentimental, settle, shuttle, skittle, throttle, title, tittle, tootle, total, transcendental, transcontinental, transmittal, turtle, unsentimental, unsettle, unsubtle, varietal, vestal, vital, vittle, Whittle, Wintle. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-k-l-l-s-t" | |
-2 letters: allees, elates, latkes, sallet, stelae, stella, teasel. | |
-3 letters: akees, allee, easel, elate, kales, keels, keets, lakes, latke, leaks, lease, least, leeks, leets, selle, setae, setal, skate, skeet, slake, slate, sleek, sleet, stake, stale, stalk, stall, steak, steal, steek, steel, stela, stele, taels, takes, tales, talks, teaks, teals, tease, teels, telae, teles, tells. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-k-l-l-s-t" | |
+1 letter: slatelike. | |
+2 letters: skeletally. | |
+3 letters: exoskeletal, nonskeletal, rathskeller. | |
+4 letters: alkalimeters, cytoskeletal, endoskeletal, rathskellers. | |
+5 letters: alkalimetries, kapellmeister. | |
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