Word Meanings - SKELET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A skeleton. See Scelet.

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-
SKELETONIZER
Any small moth whose larva eats the parenchyma of leaves, leaving the skeleton; as, the apple-leaf skeletonizer.
SCELET
A mummy; a skeleton. olland.
SKELETONIZE
To prepare a skeleton of; also, to reduce, as a leaf, to its skeleton. Pop. Sci. Monthly.
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.