skeletal frame
Body's inner scaffold
A skeletal frame is the underlying bone structure that supports a body, or any analogous supporting framework.
The term emphasizes structure over flesh—what remains when everything else is stripped away.
It extends to architectural and mechanical contexts: the skeletal frame of an unfinished building.
Describing someone as having a skeletal frame suggests extreme thinness, as if only bones are visible.
- bonesRigid internal support structure
- bone structureSkeletal anatomy and arrangement
- structureArrangement of interconnected parts
- chassisStructural support base
- rib cageBony chest enclosure
ribcage · spine · spinal column · scaffold · skull · marrow · joints · anatomy · structural support · support · backbone · pelvis · femur · vertebrae · ossified · gaunt · skin and bones · bag of bones
- physiquebuild, body type, figure, physique, somatotype
- bonesskull, femur, tibia, skulls, humerus
- body measurementsheight, weight, waist circumference, head circumference, shoulder width
- framesshadow box, shadow boxes
- abandonedabandoned, abandoned building, abandoned factory, abandoned hospital, abandoned mine
- malnutritionmalnutrition, malnourished, undernourished, undernourishment, starvation
skeletal frameflesh
Soft body matter
soft tissue · musculature · muscle · skin · fat
skeletal, skeleton, skeletons, skeletally, skeletonize, skeletonized, frame, frames, framed