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Skeleton vs Postcranial - What's the difference?

skeleton | postcranial |

In anatomy terms the difference between skeleton and postcranial

is that skeleton is the system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals while postcranial is relating to the portion of a vertebrate skeleton located behind and/or beneath the cranium.

As a noun skeleton

is the system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals.

As a verb skeleton

is to reduce to a skeleton; to skin; to skeletonize.

As an adjective postcranial is

relating to the portion of a vertebrate skeleton located behind and/or beneath the cranium.

skeleton

English

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Alternative forms

* sceleton

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (anatomy) The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals.
  • * 1883 , ,
  • At the foot of a pretty big pine, and involved in a green creeper, which had even partly lifted some of the smaller bones, a human skeleton lay, with a few shreds of clothing, on the ground.
  • A frame that provides support to a building or other construction.
  • (figuratively) A very thin person.
  • She lost so much weight while she was ill that she became a skeleton.
  • (From the sled used, which originally was a bare frame, like a skeleton.) A type of tobogganing in which competitors lie face down, and descend head first (compare luge). See
  • (computing) A client-helper procedure that communicates with a stub.
  • RMI Nomenclature: in RMI, the client helper is a 'stub' and the service helper is a 'skeleton'.
  • (geometry) The vertices and edges of a polyhedron, taken collectively.
  • An anthropomorphic representation of a skeleton. See
  • She dressed up as a skeleton for Halloween.
  • (figuratively) The central core of something that gives shape to the entire structure.
  • The skeleton of the organisation is essentially the same as it was ten years ago, but many new faces have come and gone.

    Synonyms

    * (anatomy) ottomy (obsolete) * (type of tobogganing) skeleton tobogganing * (central core giving shape to something) backbone * (very thin person) See also

    Antonyms

    * (computing) stub

    Derived terms

    * skeletal * skeletally

    See also

    * bone * luge

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) to reduce to a skeleton; to skin; to skeletonize
  • (archaic) to minimize
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    postcranial

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (anatomy) Relating to the portion of a vertebrate skeleton located behind and/or beneath the cranium.