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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Skeletal \Skel"e*tal\, a.
Pertaining to the skeleton.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
skeletal
adj 1: of or relating to or forming or attached to a skeleton; "the
skeletal system"; "skeletal bones"; "skeletal muscles"
2: very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold;
"emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt
men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous";
"small pinched faces"; kept life in his wasted frame only
by grim concentration" [syn: {bony}, {cadaverous}, {emaciated},
{gaunt}, {haggard}, {pinched}, {wasted}]
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