单词 | skeletal |
释义 | skeletaladj. a. Of or belonging to, forming or formed by, forming part of, or resembling, a skeleton. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skeleton > [adjective] atomizeda1628 skeleton1811 skeletal1854 skeletonian1879 skeletonic1880 skeletonized1976 1854 R. Owen Struct. Skeleton & Teeth in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature I. 168 The skeletal framework..does not go beyond the fibrous stage. 1872 G. M. Humphry Observ. Myology 8 The skeletal formations in the sternal region of the visceral wall. b. skeletal muscle n. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > muscle > types of muscles > [noun] sphincter1578 raiser1588 in-muscle?1609 oblique1612 abducens1615 abductor1615 adductor1615 antagonist1615 bender1615 depressor1615 extender1615 flexor1615 levator1615 quadratus1615 rectus1615 retractor1615 sphincter-muscle1615 accelerator1638 bicepsa1641 elevator1646 adducent1649 lifter1649 rotator1657 flector1666 contractor1682 dilater1683 orbicularis palpebrarum1694 transverse muscle1696 tensor muscle1704 biventer1706 extensor1713 attollent1728 constrictor1741 dilator1741 risibles1785 orbicularis oculi1797 obliquus1799 erector1828 extensor-muscle1830 compressor1836 trans-muscle1836 antagonizer1844 motor1846 evertor1848 inflector1851 protractor1853 prime mover1860 orbicular1872 transversalis1872 invertor1875 skeletal muscle1877 dilatator1878 occlusor muscle1878 sphincter1879 pilomotor1892 agonist1896 1877 M. Foster Text Bk. Physiol. i. ii. 31 All the ordinary striated skeletal muscles are connected with nerves. 1936 L. 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. 1978 D. 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. 1982 Sci. 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 n. = lithosol n. at litho- comb. form . ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > kind of earth or soil > [noun] > other soils white earth1448 Chiltern?1530 light land1589 deads1653 rosil1691 moorland1753 prairie soil1817 residuum1828 rendzina1905 podzol1908 solonetz1924 solod1925 solonchak1925 pedalfer1928 pedocal1928 skeletal soil1932 peloid1933 sierozem1934 planosol1938 lithosol1939 regosol1949 andosol1958 Alfisol1960 Aridisol1960 Histosol1960 Spodosol1960 Andisol1978 1928 Proc. 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.] 1932 G. W. Robinson Soils xvi. 320 Immature skeletal soils are found in the south [of Germany]. 1939 U.S. Dept. Agric. Yearbk. 1938 1171 Lithosols (skeletal soils), an azonal group of soils having no clearly expressed soil morphology and consisting of a freshly and imperfectly weathered mass of rock fragments. 1977 J. 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. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > non-fiction > summary or epitome > [adjective] > outline skeletal1961 1961 W. Brown Bedeviled 106 Once Dr. Hazel had pieced together this skeletal tale, he notified Captain Brill. 1967 T. Keneally Bring Larks ii. 17 She stood business-like against the skeletal tracery of her master's sick vines. 1967 A. 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. 1971 Physics Bull. Aug. 462/1 Some body can be given to these skeletal facts by an order-of-magnitude calculation. Derivatives ˈskeletally adv. as regards the skeleton. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skeleton > [adverb] skeletonly1847 skeletally1956 1956 Nature 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. 1974 Nature 13 Sept. 137/2 In Detroit..serum antirachitic activity..was significantly less in symptomatic osteoporotic subjects than in the skeletally normal. Draft additions 1993 d. Suggestive of a skeleton owing to extreme thinness; emaciated, skinny. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [adjective] > thin leanc1000 thinc1000 swonga1300 meagrea1398 empty?c1400 (as) thin (also lean, rank) as a rakec1405 macilent?a1425 rawc1425 gauntc1440 to be skin and bone (also bones)c1450 leany?a1475 swampc1480 scarrya1500 pinched1514 extenuate1528 lean-fleshed1535 carrion-lean1542 spare1548 lank1553 carrion1565 brawn-fallen1578 raw-bone1590 scraggeda1591 thin-bellied1591 rake-lean1593 bare-boned1594 forlorn1594 Lented1594 lean-looked1597 shotten herring1598 spiny1598 starved1598 thin-belly1598 raw-boned1600 larbar1603 meagry?1603 fleshless1605 scraggy1611 ballow1612 lank-leana1616 skinnya1616 hagged1616 scraggling1616 carrion-like1620 extenuated1620 thin-gutted1620 haggard1630 scrannel1638 leanisha1645 skeletontal1651 overlean1657 emaciated1665 slank1668 lathy1672 emaciate1676 nithered1691 emacerated1704 lean-looking1713 scranky1735 squinny-gut(s)1742 mauger1756 squinny1784 angular1789 etiolated1791 as thin (also lean) as a rail1795 wiry1808 slink1817 scranny1820 famine-hollowed1822 sharp featured1824 reedy1830 scrawny1833 stringy1833 lean-ribbeda1845 skeletony1852 famine-pinched1856 shelly1866 flesh-fallen1876 thinnish1884 all horn and hide1890 unfurnished1893 bone-thin1899 underweight1899 asthenic1925 skin-and-bony1935 skinny-malinky1940 skeletal1952 pencil-neck1960 1952 W. Plomer Museum Pieces xxii. 182 She now put out a long, thin forearm, almost skeletal in its refinement. 1962 O. Manning Spoilt City i. iii. 34 He was tall, skeletal, narrow-shouldered and stooped like a consumptive. 1980 J. Wainwright Dominoes i. 9 The skeletal impression extended to his hands; long-fingered, knuckle-boned and almost flesh-less. 1988 P. 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1854 |
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