skeletal
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Low muscle mass was defined as a skeletal muscle mass index below 9.36 kg/m2 for men and below 6.73 kg/m2 for women.
From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2026
The palm wood snaking through the center of Mohammad Al Faraj’s eerie installation seems like the skeletal vertebrae of some giant creature.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
Now the creatures' skeletal remains appear to have been found in an Iron Age dig near Cordoba.
From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026
The study was published Dec. 15 in "Structural basis for simvastatin-induced skeletal muscle weakness associated with RyR1 T4709M mutation," in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
From Science Daily • Jan. 14, 2026
—The window was the merest slit in the black rock, not big enough for a man to enter....A skeletal figure was just visible through it, curled beneath a blanket....Dead, or sleeping...?
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
Vocabulary lists containing skeletal
STAAR Biology: Biological Processes and Systems
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Organisms and Environments 5: Human Systems
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Novel Study: Inside Out & Back Again, Unpack and Repack–1976: The Year of the Dragon
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