endoskeleton
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The internal supporting framework of humans and other vertebrates, usually made of bone. Certain invertebrates, such as sponges and echinoderms, also have endoskeletons.
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An endoskeleton is an internal skeleton composed of hard, mineralized tissue that also enables movement by attachment to muscles.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Over several months, the artist has built three black scaffold structures 60 feet high, off the walls, like an endoskeleton.
From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 2021
"I’ve got thick skin stretched over my metal endoskeleton, so I knew I could take it," he noted.
From Fox News ● Aug. 13, 2021
Wrinkled and gray-haired, with a drooping face that seems designed for a spryer, thinner metal endoskeleton, Mr. Schwarzenegger, the no-longer-quite-so-muscle-bound action star, certainly looks the former.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 30, 2015
The demonstrated constitution of the vertebrate endoskeleton as a series of essentially similar segments appeared to me to illustrate the law of irrelative repetition.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
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