Word Meanings - SKELETAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to the skeleton.

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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-
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• 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.
• 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.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach