skeletal

英 ['skelɪt(ə)l; skə'liːt(ə)l] 美['skɛlətl]

1. of or relating to or forming or attached to a skeleton;: "the skeletal system"; "skeletal bones"; "skeletal muscles"

2. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold;: "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"