skeletal

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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

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

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

So I had nothing to compare the skeletal man lying on a hospital bed to, except my own face.

From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat