| Pronunciation: | | sk'elutul
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| Matching Terms: | | skeletal frame, skeletal isomer, skeletal muscle, skeletal structure, skeletal system
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- [adj] 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"
- [adj] of or relating to or forming or attached to a skeleton; "the skeletal system"; "skeletal bones"; "skeletal muscles"
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| | Synonyms: | | bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, lean, pinched, thin, wasted |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Skel"e*tal\, a.
Pertaining to the skeleton.
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