skeletal

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Her research focuses on metabolic bone diseases and skeletal fragility, and she has published extensively on bone remodeling, metabolic bone disorders, and skeletal pain mechanisms.

From Science Daily • Mar. 23, 2026

Navarro also built a detailed 3D physical model by layering muscle and skin over a skeletal framework.

From Science Daily • Feb. 23, 2026

Now the creatures' skeletal remains appear to have been found in an Iron Age dig near Cordoba.

From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026

But he is best known for his inimitable, Surrealist pictures featuring skeletal, architectonic figures—merging humans, animals, foliage, totems and signs—which, though indecipherable, are instantly recognizable.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 31, 2026

He sprang up with his fangs bared and his skeletal chest heaving.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer