AXIAL SKELETON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does axial skeleton mean? 

• AXIAL SKELETON (noun)
  The noun AXIAL SKELETON has 1 sense:

1. the part of the skeleton that includes the skull and spinal column and sternum and ribs

  Familiarity information: AXIAL SKELETON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AXIAL SKELETON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The part of the skeleton that includes the skull and spinal column and sternum and ribs

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Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("axial skeleton" is a kind of...):

skeletal structure (any structure created by the skeleton of an organism)

Meronyms (parts of "axial skeleton"):

breastbone; sternum (the flat bone that articulates with the clavicles and the first seven pairs of ribs)

skull (the bony skeleton of the head of vertebrates)

rib cage (the bony enclosing wall of the chest)

back; backbone; rachis; spinal column; spine; vertebral column (the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord)

Holonyms ("axial skeleton" is a part of...):

endoskeleton (the internal skeleton; bony and cartilaginous structure (especially of vertebrates))