of or relating to or forming or attached to a skeleton;
"the skeletal system"; "skeletal bones"; "skeletal muscles"
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" Synonym(s):bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Skeletal \Skel"e*tal\, a.
Pertaining to the skeleton.