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单词 skeletal
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skeletaladj.

Brit. /ˈskɛlᵻtl/, /skᵻˈliːtl/, U.S. /ˈskɛləd(ə)l/
Etymology: < skelet- (in skeleton n.) + -al suffix1.
a. Of or belonging to, forming or formed by, forming part of, or resembling, a skeleton.
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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.
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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 .
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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