Definitions for skeletal
ˈskɛl ɪ tlskele·tal

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. skeletaladjective

   of or relating to or forming or attached to a skeleton

   "the skeletal system"; "skeletal bones"; "skeletal muscles"

2. bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wastedadjective

   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"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. skeletaladjective

   of, or relating to the skeleton

2. skeletaladjective

   haggard, cadaverous, emaciated or gaunt

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. skeletal

   A skeleton is the structural frame that supports the body of most animals. There are several types of skeletons, including the exoskeleton, which is the stable outer shell of an organism, the endoskeleton, which forms the support structure inside the body, and the hydroskeleton, a flexible internal skeleton supported by fluid pressure. Vertebrates are animals with a vertebral column, and their skeletons are typically composed of bone and cartilage. Invertebrates are animals that lack a vertebral column. The skeletons of invertebrates vary, including hard exoskeleton shells, plated endoskeletons, or spicules. Cartilage is a rigid connective tissue that is found in the skeletal systems of vertebrates and invertebrates.

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1. skeletal

   Skeletal refers to the bony structure (framework) that supports and protects the organs of a body, primarily in animals. It can also refer to anything that is stripped down to its essential, bare framework or basic form in other contexts.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Skeletaladjective

   pertaining to the skeleton

Anagrams for skeletal »

1. lakelets

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of skeletal in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of skeletal in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of skeletal in a Sentence

1. Thomas Frazer:

   This type of work really matters, corals selected for restoration might, for example, be more resistant to warmer ocean temperatures and bleaching, exhibit skeletal properties that are able to withstand more intense wave energy, or traits that might make them more resistant to disease or other environmental stressors.

2. Johanna Satekge:

   It was hard to be diagnosed at that time. You used to see just images of skeletal people, my niece, who I was raising, would sometimes come home from primary school, crying: 'How is mama HIV positive? Is she going to die?'.

3. Laura Bachrach:

   The horse may have been a little bit out of the barn here in terms of what they’re looking at, girls tend to mature earlier . . . the girls were even more fixed in their position in the skeletal world by the time they started, whereas the boys were perhaps a little more malleable.

4. Emmanuel Audenaert:

   During puberty and as a result of changing testosterone hormone balance, the growth plate weakens around the age of 12-13, making it even more sensitive to displacement or deformity, severe muscular training and high loading activities should be restricted until skeletal maturity for any joint and sport.

5. Nathan Sharps:

   This decreases the chance of muscular-skeletal injury. We look at the soldier as an individual ecosystem. We’re not just looking at what they cannot do right now, but also at what challenges they are going to face 20 years from now.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=skeletal
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Skeletal
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeletal
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/skeletal