skeletal

英['skelɪt(ə)l;skə'liːt(ə)l] 美['skɛlətl]

1. of or relating to or forming or attached to a skeleton;

"the skeletal system"

"skeletal bones"

"skeletal muscles"

2. 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"