Skeletal vs. Skeleton

Skeletaladjective

of, or relating to the skeleton

Skeletaladjective

haggard, cadaverous, emaciated or gaunt

Skeletaladjective

Pertaining to the skeleton.

Skeletaladjective

of or relating to or forming or attached to a skeleton;

Skeletaladjective

very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold;

Skeletonnoun

(anatomy) The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals.

Skeletonnoun

An anthropomorphic representation of a skeleton.

Skeletonnoun

(figuratively) A very thin person.

Skeletonnoun

(figuratively) The central core of something that gives shape to the entire structure.

Skeletonnoun

(architecture) A frame that provides support to a building or other construction.

Skeletonnoun

(computing) A client-helper procedure that communicates with a stub.

Skeletonnoun

(geometry) The vertices and edges of a polyhedron, taken collectively.

Skeletonnoun

A type of tobogganing in which competitors lie face down, and descend head first (compare luge).

Skeletonverb

(archaic) to reduce to a skeleton; to skin; to skeletonize

Skeletonverb

(archaic) to minimize

Skeletonnoun

The bony and cartilaginous framework which supports the soft parts of a vertebrate animal.

Skeletonnoun

A very thin or lean person.

Skeletonnoun

The heads and outline of a literary production, especially of a sermon.

Skeletonadjective

Consisting of, or resembling, a skeleton; consisting merely of the framework or outlines; having only certain leading features of anything; as, a skeleton sermon; a skeleton crystal.

Skeletonnoun

something reduced to its minimal form;

Skeletonnoun

a scandal that is kept secret;

Skeletonnoun

the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal

Skeletonnoun

the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape;

Skeleton

A skeleton is a structural frame that supports an animal body. There are several different skeletal types: the exoskeleton, which is the stable outer shell of an organism, the endoskeleton, which forms the support structure inside the body, the hydroskeleton, a flexible skeleton supported by fluid pressure, and the cytoskeleton present in the cytoplasm of all cells, including bacteria, and archaea.