Skeletal - Definition

adj 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" [syn: bony, cadaverous, emaciated,
gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted]