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A skeleton. See Scelet.

Pertaining to the skeleton.

Forming or producing parts of the skeleton.

That part of anatomy which treats of the skeleton; also, a treatise on the skeleton.

nything; the principal parts that support the rest, but without the appendages. The great skeleton of the world. Sir M. Hale.

To prepare a skeleton of; also, to reduce, as a leaf, to its skeleton. Pop. Sci. Monthly.

Any small moth whose larva eats the parenchyma of leaves, leaving the skeleton; as, the apple-leaf skeletonizer.

See Exoskeleton.

Pertaining to, or connected with, the endoskeleton; as, endoskeletal muscles.

ny, cartilaginous, or other internal framework of an animal, as distinguished from the exoskeleton.

Above or outside of the endoskeleton; epaxial.

Pertaining to the exoskeleton; as exoskeletal muscles.

many reptiles, and the shells or hardened integument of numerous invertebrates; external skeleton; dermoskeleton.

Beneath the endoskeleton; hypaxial; as, the hyposkeletal muscles; -- opposed to episkeletal.

Of or pertaining to the neuroskeleton. [R.] Owen.

The deep-seated parts of the vertebrate skeleton which are relation with the nervous axis and locomation. Owen.

A chitinous structure which supports the gill in some invertebrates.

That part of the skeleton which is developed in tendons, ligaments, and aponeuroses.

That part of the skeleton connected with the sense organs and the viscera. Owen.

Of or pertaining to the framework, or skeleton, or skeleton, of the viscera; as, the visceroskeletal system of muscles. Mivart.