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Adjective: skeletal  ske-lu-tul
  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, hunger or cold
    "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys";
    - cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, wasted

See also: lean, meager [N. Amer], meagre [Brit, Cdn], thin

Encyclopedia: Skeletal