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skeletal adjective 1. emaciated, wasted, gaunt, skin-and-bone (informal), cadaverous, hollow-cheeked, lantern-jawed, fleshless, worn to a shadow a hospital filled with skeletal children 2. incomplete, inadequate, insufficient, wanting, lacking, partial, patchy, deficient, scrappy, fragmentary, bitty Passenger services can best be described as skeletal. Translations skeletal [ˈskɛlɪtəl] adj [remains] → de squelette; [system, muscle] → squelettique (= extremely thin) [person] → squelettique (= very basic) [service] → spartiate; [plot] → squelettique skeletal adj person → bis aufs Skelett abgemagert; appearance → wie ein Skelett; shapes of trees etc → skelettartig; skeletal muscles → Skelettmuskulatur f; skeletal remains → Teile pl → eines Gerippes; the skeletal system → das Skelett How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| ): "Fear and joy may both cause cardiac palpitation, but in one case we find high tonus of the skeletal muscles, in the other case relaxation and the general sense of weakness. |
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