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Exoskeleton :: Exoskeleton (n.) The hardened parts of the external integument of an animal, including hair, feathers, nails, horns, scales, etc.,as well as the armor of armadillos and many reptiles, and the shells or hardened integument of numerous invertebrates; external skeleton; dermoskeleton..

Scleroskeleton :: Scleroskeleton (n.) That part of the skeleton which is developed in tendons, ligaments, and aponeuroses..

Ossicle :: Ossicle (n.) One of numerous small calcareous structures forming the skeleton of certain echinoderms, as the starfishes..

Atomy :: Atomy (n.) A skeleton.

Crossbones :: Crossbones (n. pl.) A representation of two of the leg bones or arm bones of a skeleton, laid crosswise, often surmounted with a skull, and serving as a symbol of death..

Skeletonize :: Skeletonize (v. t.) To prepare a skeleton of; also, to reduce, as a leaf, to its skeleton..

Neuroskeletal :: Neuroskeletal (a.) Of or pertaining to the neuroskeleton.

Skeletology :: Skeletology (n.) That part of anatomy which treats of the skeleton; also, a treatise on the skeleton..

Chondropterygian :: Chondropterygian (a.) Having a cartilaginous skeleton.

Notochord :: Notochord (n.) An elastic cartilagelike rod which is developed beneath the medullary groove in the vertebrate embryo, and constitutes the primitive axial skeleton around which the centra of the vertebrae and the posterior part of the base of the skull are developed; the chorda dorsalis. See Illust. of Ectoderm..

Articulator :: Articulator (n.) One who, or that which, articulates; as: (a) One who enunciates distinctly. (b) One who prepares and mounts skeletons. (c) An instrument to cure stammering..

Chondrostei :: Chondrostei (n. pl.) An order of fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so named because the skeleton is cartilaginous..

Dermoskeleton :: Dermoskeleton (n.) See Exoskeleton.

Endoskeleton :: Endoskeleton (n.) The bony, cartilaginous, or other internal framework of an animal, as distinguished from the exoskeleton..

Endoskeletal :: Endoskeletal (a.) Pertaining to, or connected with, the endoskeleton; as, endoskeletal muscles..

Hyposkeletal :: Hyposkeletal (a.) Beneath the endoskeleton; hypaxial; as, the hyposkeletal muscles; -- opposed to episkeletal..

Exo :: Exo () A prefix signifying out of, outside; as in exocarp, exogen, exoskeleton..

Tubipora :: Tubipora (n.) A genus of halcyonoids in which the skeleton, or coral (called organ-pipe coral), consists of a mass of parallel cylindrical tubes united at intervals by transverse plates. These corals are usually red or purple and form large masses. They are natives of the tropical parts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans..

Cartilaginous :: Cartilaginous (a.) Having the skeleton in the state of cartilage, the bones containing little or no calcareous matter; said of certain fishes, as the sturgeon and the sharks..

Articulated :: Articulated (a.) United by, or provided with, articulations; jointed; as, an articulated skeleton..

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