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skeletal, a.|ˈskɛlɪtəl, skɛˈliːtəl|
[f. skelet-on n. + -al1.]
a. Of or belonging to, forming or formed by, forming part of, or resembling, a skeleton.
1854Owen in Orr's Circ. Sci., Org. Nat. I. 168 The skeletal framework..does not go beyond the fibrous stage. 1872Humphry Myology 8 The skeletal formations in the sternal region of the visceral wall.
b. skeletal muscle, a muscle attached to and controlling a part of a skeleton or transmitting force to connective tissue sheets, and in most cases under voluntary control; striated muscle other than cardiac muscle.
1877M. Foster Physiol. i. ii. (1879) 37 All the ordinary striated skeletal muscles are connected with nerves. 1936L. B. Arey Developmental Anat. (ed. 3) xiii. 361 With the exception of those muscles of the head and neck which differentiate out of the branchial arches, the skeletal muscles originate from that portion of the mesodermal segment designated a myotome, or muscle plate. 1978D. R. Lamb Physiol. of Exercise ii. 15 The skeletal muscles consume most of the oxygen and require most of the body's blood during heavy exercise. 1982Sci. Amer. June 48/2 It was found that in skeletal and cardiac muscle (which is called striated muscle because of its striped appearance in a micrograph) calcium binds to a protein called troponin c.
c. skeletal soil = lithosol s.v. litho-.
[1928Proc. 1st Internat. Congr. Soil Sci. IV. 31 [Soils] developing in a normal way..whose profile is imperfect wholly because of lack of time to complete their development have never been given any designation covering them as a whole. They have been designated as skeleton soils but this term is not applicable to the group as a whole. ]1932G. W. Robinson Soils xvi. 320 Immature skeletal soils are found in the south [of Germany]. 1939[see lithosol s.v. litho-]. 1977J. C. F. Tedrow Soils of Polar Landscapes xxii. 568 Ohsumi reviewed the characteristics of the alpine soils in Japan and established four varieties: (1) Alpine grassland soils, (2) Alpine podzols, (3) Alpine wet meadow soils, and (4) Skeletal soils.
d. Having or consisting of only a framework or outline; bare, meagre.
1961W. Brown Bedeviled 106 Once Dr. Hazel had pieced together this skeletal tale, he notified Captain Brill. 1967T. Keneally Bring Larks ii. 17 She stood business-like against the skeletal tracery of her master's sick vines. 1967A. N. Sherwin-White Racial Prejudice in Imperial Rome Pref. p. vii, They have been printed much as delivered, with the addition only of source references, a skeletal bibliography, and translations of most quotations. 1971Physics Bull. Aug. 462/1 Some body can be given to these skeletal facts by an order-of-magnitude calculation.
Hence ˈskeletally adv., as regards the skeleton.
1956Nature 18 Feb. 342/2 The history of the Amphibia Salientia can readily be traced back to the Jurassic when it appears that, skeletally at least, they were already typical, modern Anura. 1974Ibid. 13 Sept. 137/2 In Detroit..serum antirachitic activity..was significantly less in symptomatic osteoporotic subjects than in the skeletally normal.
Sense d in Dict. becomes e. Add: d. Suggestive of a skeleton owing to extreme thinness; emaciated, skinny.
1952W. Plomer Museum Pieces xxii. 182 She now put out a long, thin forearm, almost skeletal in its refinement. 1962O. Manning Spoilt City i. iii. 34 He was tall, skeletal, narrow-shouldered and stooped like a consumptive. 1980J. Wainwright Dominoes i. 9 The skeletal impression extended to his hands; long-fingered, knuckle-boned and almost flesh-less. 1988P. Sayer Comforts of Madness xxii. 120 If it were possible to stretch me out they would see how much I had shrunk. My legs are now very thin, skeletal, drawn up and outwards. |