The word skeleton comes to English (through Latin) from ancient Greek from the word skellein meaning dry up.
No, it does not. The axial skeleton contains the bones arranged in a longitundinal axis, i.e. the cranium, hyoid, auditory ossicles, vertebral column and thoracic cage. The arms are part of the appendicular skeleton
1578, from Mod.L. sceleton "bones, bony framework of the body," from Gk. skeleton soma "dried-up body, mummy," from neut. of skeletos "dried-up," from skellein "dry up," from PIE base *skele- "to parch, whither" (cf. Gk. skleros "hard"). The Gk. word was borrowed in L.L. (sceletus), hence Fr. squelette, Sp. esqueleto, It. scheletro. The meaning "bare outline" is first recorded 1607; hence skeleton crew (1778), skeleton key, etc. Phrase skeleton in the closet "source of secret shame to a person or family" popularized 1845 by Thackeray, though he likely didn't coin it.
"Esqueleto" is skeleton in Spanish.
There are more than two long bones in the skeleton but if you mean the two longest bones then the femur (longest) and tibia second longest).
A human skeleton that is taken apart is called a disarticulated skeleton.
Do you mean skeleton? A skeleton is the framework of bones for a mammal.
The word skeleton is a singular, common, concrete noun, a word for a thing.
If you mean a human skeleton, than use "bones" or "bag of bones." Other meanings have different synonyms like "framework," "outline" or "minimum."
The word skeleton has three syllables. (Ske-le-ton)
The word "axial" means "of or pertaining to an axis" or "belonging to the axis of the body", such as the axial skeleton.
The word "skeleton" comes from the Greek word "skeleton," which means "dried-up body" or "mummy."
The word, skeleton? It is squelette. As in, "J'ai une squelette" in French means "I have a skeleton" in English....
Skeletal is an adjective related to the word skeleton. Adjectives describing a skeleton include bony, axial, appendicular, and grinning.
If the word is skeletal then it means something functioning like or related to a skeleton. Skeletal is also referred as framework of something.
The correct division of syllables in the word 'skeleton' is ske-le-ton.
The external skeleton used by arthropods is called an exoskeleton.
In ancient Greek skeleton means "dried-up".