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ENDOSKELETON

English dictionary: Word overview

ENDOSKELETON (noun)
  The noun ENDOSKELETON has 1 sense:

1. the internal skeleton; bony and cartilaginous structure (especially of vertebrates)

  Familiarity information: ENDOSKELETON used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


ENDOSKELETON (noun)


Sense 1endoskeleton [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

The internal skeleton; bony and cartilaginous structure (especially of vertebrates)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("endoskeleton" is a kind of...):

frame; skeletal system; skeleton; systema skeletale (the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal)

Meronyms (parts of "endoskeleton"):

articulatio; articulation; joint ((anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion))

leg bone (a bone of the leg)

arm bone (a bone in the arm)

axial skeleton (the part of the skeleton that includes the skull and spinal column and sternum and ribs)

appendicular skeleton (the part of the skeleton that includes the pectoral girdle and the pelvic girdle and the upper and lower limbs)

scapula; shoulder blade; shoulder bone (either of two flat triangular bones one on each side of the shoulder in human beings)

clavicle; collarbone (bone linking the scapula and sternum)

bone; os (rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates)

Domain category:

craniate; vertebrate (animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium)


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