What is the meaning of skeletal?

Of or relating to or forming or attached to a skeleton.
- usage: "the skeletal system"; "skeletal bones"; "skeletal muscles"
Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, wasted

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