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Six example sentences with skeletal, each labelled with its topic.
Resistance training thickens skeletal muscle, and the same load also signals the bones underneath to lay down more mineral.
Fitness
A radiologist can estimate a child's age from skeletal images alone, reading growth plates in the wrist like tree rings.
Medicine
Life-drawing students learn skeletal landmarks first, because the hip and collarbone shape every pose long before muscle is added.
Art
The dig's skeletal remains showed healed fractures, so the crew knew the village had cared for its injured.
History
Every character starts as a skeletal rig of joints, and the artist hangs the visible body on those bones afterward.
Gaming
Paleontologists compared the skeletal structure of the fossil bird with a modern pigeon, bone by bone.
Science
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