Definition of skeletal
: of, relating to, forming, attached to, or resembling a skeleton
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Examples of skeletal in a Sentence
The archaeologist found skeletal remains.
She was skeletal after her illness.
Recent Examples of skeletal from the Web
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For 26 years Mexico City’s Bertha Sandoval, 81, has taken part in Día de los Muertos events playing the iconic La Catrina, the distinctive grand dame of death, her delicate, beautiful face painted to skeletal perfection.
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Your muscles develop and stop holding your skeletal system in an unnatural off central position.
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The skeletal remains of Lebanon’s iron heyday are now scattered across the country.
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Examples of skeletal deformities abound in the animal kingdom—think malformed limbs or an abnormal number of toes.
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The connection between low levels of vitamin D and human diseases was noticed in the first decades of the 20th century, as doctors pondered the cause of rickets, a softening of bones among children that led to skeletal deformities.
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Autopsies of the skeletal structures revealed that cheap shortcuts, especially on roofs, caused the entire community to blow away like a house of cards.
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Researchers excavated Ainu burial sites and shipped several sets of Ainu skeletal remains to scholars overseas—reportedly without permission from the families of the deceased.
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Your muscles develop and stop holding your skeletal system in an unnatural off central position.
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First Known Use of skeletal
1854
skeletal Synonyms
Synonyms
cadaverous, gaunt, haggard, emaciated, wastedRelated Words
bony (also boney), lank, lanky, rawboned, scraggy, scrawny, sinewy, skinny, spare, thin; starved, underfed, undernourished; famished, hungry, starving; shriveled (or shrivelled), withered, wizenedNear Antonyms
beefy, brawny, burly, fit, hale, healthy, hearty, husky; chubby, corpulent, fat, fleshy, heavyset, obese, overweight, plump, portly, pudgy, roly-poly, rotund, stocky, thickset, tubby; flabby, softSKELETAL Defined for English Language Learners
SKELETAL Defined for Kids
Medical Dictionary
skeletal
adjective
skel·e·tal
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ˈskel-ət-ᵊl, British sometimes ske-ˈlēt-ᵊl
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medical Definition of skeletal
: of, relating to, forming, attached to, or resembling a skeleton
- skeletal structures
- the skeletal system
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