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episkeletal

adj

Etymology

From epi- + skeletal.

  1. derived from *(s)kelh₁-✻
  2. derived from σκελετός
  3. borrowed from sceleton
  4. suffixed as skeletal — “skeleton + al”
  5. prefixed as episkeletal — “epi + skeletal”

Definitions

  1. Above or outside the skeleton or endoskeleton

    • episkeletal muscles

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for episkeletal. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA