skeletally
- adverb
- /ˈskɛlɪtəli/
:
esqueléticamente
- The design of the building was skeletally minimalist, focusing only on the essential elements.
- skeletally mature
- skeletally immature
Examples
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The report was skeletally formatted, with just the key findings listed beneath each section.
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Her argument was skeletally clear, containing only the basic points needed to understand her perspective.
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Fractures in children generally heal much more quickly than those in a skeletally mature adolescent or adult.
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Interestingly, but not often noted, research conducted in the early twentieth century showed that, skeletally speaking, modern Egyptians tend to mature earlier than their European counterparts.
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Standard operative treatment for skeletally mature adolescents and adults with a tibia fracture is an intramedullary locking nail (see Figure 18).
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As described in Part I of the series, nondisplaced Salter-Harris I fractures are usually not seen on plain radiographs and should be assumed in a skeletally immature patient with tenderness at the physis (growth plate).
Academic text (2006)
Synonyms
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In a way that changes the parts that hold something together
Antonyms
How Minimal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Skeletally comes from skeleton, from an old Greek word meaning 'dried body' or 'frame'. Think of a skeleton as the basic frame of a body, so to do something skeletally is to give only the 'bare bones' or main parts.