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The word "skeletal" is correct in written English
It is often used to describe something that is thin, emaciated, or resembling a skeleton, and can also refer to a basic or minimal structure. Example: "The skeletal remains of the ancient creature were discovered in the cave."
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skeletal
adjective
Of, or relating to the skeleton
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Will they have to become skeletal and close to death before someone takes an interest?
One week I would be a size zero, and my skeletal form would be found hunched scribbling notes instead of eating lunch.
Benyamin said in psychiatric, ophthalmological and skeletal traits, genetic factors were a larger influence than environmental factors.
Holland is the first single to emerge from the sessions, a skeletal, dry-as-a-bone musical backing swollen by a voice loaded with soul but beautifully restrained.
Pardew's temporary successor has been hung out to dry by Mike Ashley, the owner, who could yet pay a very high price for his negligence in failing to restock a skeletal squad in January.
Three coral diseases – skeletal eroding band, brown band, and a group of diseases called white syndromes – were found to be less prevalent inside no-take marine reserves, particularly compared with reefs with high levels of injured corals and discarded fishing line.
Moss's joie de vivre and her refusal to explain herself is why she has lasted in the business a long time, because unlike so many dead-eyed, skeletal clothes horses she looks like fun.
As a result, vital public services that people have taken for granted for the past 50 years will either disappear or exist only in a skeletal form, and probably run by profiteering private companies.
There must be something more to the success of such a varied group than their skeletal and muscular inheritance.But what of our second heretical notion, that the best sports are those where bigness is less rather than more important?
The researchers wanted to see if this skeleton, too, relied on carbonic anhydrase.To do so, they chopped up some sponges and analysed the skeletal elements.
Aside from their shorter stature, they had more skeletal wear and tear from the hard work, their teeth rotted more, they were short of protein and vitamins and they caught diseases from domesticated animals: measles from cattle, flu from ducks, plague from rats and worms from using their own excrement as fertiliser.They also got a bad attack of inequality for the first time.
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