Word Meanings - SCLEROSKELETON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That part of the skeleton which is developed in tendons, ligaments, and aponeuroses.

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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-
• DEVELOPMENT
  The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization. The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• DEVELOPABLE
  Capable of being developed. J. Peile. Developable surface , a surface described by a moving right line, and such that consecutive positions of the generator intersect each other. Hence, the surface can be developed into a plane.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• DEVELOP
  To change the form of, as of an algebraic expression, by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value. (more info) voleper, to envelop, perh. from L. volup agreeably, delightfully, and hence orig., to make agreeable
• DEVELOPMENTAL
  Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the process of development; as, the developmental power of a germ. Carpenter.
• 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.
• DEVELOPER
  A reagent by the action of which the latent image upon a photographic plate, after exposure in the camera, or otherwise, is developed and visible. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, develops.
• SCLEROSKELETON
  That part of the skeleton which is developed in tendons, ligaments, and aponeuroses.
• NONDEVELOPMENT
  Failure or lack of development.
• DERMOSKELETON
  See EXOSKELETON
• REDEVELOP
  To develop again; specif. ,
• 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.
• OVERDEVELOP
  To develop excessively; specif. ,