Word Meanings - HYPAXIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Beneath the axis of the skeleton; subvertebral; hyposkeletal.

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• SKELETON
  The bony and cartilaginous framework which supports the soft parts of a vertebrate animal. Note: The more or less firm or hardened framework of an invertebrate animal. Note: In a wider sense, the skeleton includes the whole connective-
• SUBVERTEBRAL
  Situated beneath, or on the ventral side of, the vertebral column; situated beneath, or inside of, the endoskeleton; hypaxial; hyposkeletal.
• SKELETONIZER
  Any small moth whose larva eats the parenchyma of leaves, leaving the skeleton; as, the apple-leaf skeletonizer.
• SKELETONIZE
  To prepare a skeleton of; also, to reduce, as a leaf, to its skeleton. Pop. Sci. Monthly.
• BENEATH
  1. Lower in place, with something directly over or on; under; underneath; hence, at the foot of. "Beneath the mount." Ex. xxxii.
• HYPOSKELETAL
  Beneath the endoskeleton; hypaxial; as, the hyposkeletal muscles; -- opposed to episkeletal.
• SCLEROSKELETON
  That part of the skeleton which is developed in tendons, ligaments, and aponeuroses.
• DERMOSKELETON
  See EXOSKELETON
• ENDOSKELETON
  The bony, cartilaginous, or other internal framework of an animal, as distinguished from the exoskeleton.
• SPLANCHNO-SKELETON
  That part of the skeleton connected with the sense organs and the viscera. Owen.
• PNEUMOSKELETON
  A chitinous structure which supports the gill in some invertebrates.
• EXOSKELETON
  The hardened parts of the external integument of an animal, including hair, feathers, nails, horns, scales, etc.,as well as the armor of armadillos and many reptiles, and the shells or hardened integument of numerous invertebrates; external
• NEUROSKELETON
  The deep-seated parts of the vertebrate skeleton which are relation with the nervous axis and locomation. Owen.