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skeletal in WordNet English dictionary
adjective- 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"
bony cadaverous emaciated gaunt haggard pinched skeletal wasted
- of or relating to or forming or attached to a skeleton
"the skeletal system"; "skeletal bones"; "skeletal muscles"
skeletal
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