1. (

• skeletal

) of or relating to or forming or attached to a skeleton; "the skeletal system"; "skeletal bones"; "skeletal muscles" ;

2. (

• cadaverous ,
• emaciated ,
• gaunt ,
• haggard ,
• pinched ,
• skeletal ,
• wasted

) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "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" ;