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periskeletal

periskeletal adjective: around the skeleton.

Adjective

periskeletal (not comparable)

  1. Around the skeleton.
    • Starting at approximately one month of age and continuing for the next two years, the scleral ossicles of SF elongate via unilateral periskeletal ossification and fuse to form a continuous bony ring that eventually covers 90% or more of the circumference of the eye, while the sclera of CF remain...2015 December 10, “Complex Evolutionary and Genetic Patterns Characterize the Loss of Scleral Ossification in the Blind Cavefish Astyanax mexicanus”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of periskeletal

From peri- + skeletal.

Questions about periskeletal

What does periskeletal mean?
Periskeletal means around the skeleton.
What part of speech is periskeletal?
Periskeletal is an adjective.

Words near periskeletal in the dictionary

  1. perishments
  2. perisht
  3. perisilvian
  4. perisinusoidal
  5. perisinusoidally
  6. periskeletal
  7. perisoma
  8. perisomal
  9. perisomata
  10. perisomatic
  11. perisomatically

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