skeletomusculature

noun

The physical structure of skeleton and muscles.

Scrabble 26

Meanings

nounskeletomusculature (uncountable)
  1. uncountablebiologyThe physical structure of skeleton and muscles.

    Given that much of the peripheral body morphology is masculinized by the direct action of androgens, the tfm males have a female-typical bodily phenotype, including a vagina (albeit blind-ending) and a feminine skeletomusculature (Vanderschueren et al., 1993, 1994 ).

    2007 December 11, Evelyn F. Field, Sergio M. Pellis, “The Brain as the Engine of Sex Differences in the Organization of Movement in Rats”, in Archives of Sexual Behavior, volume 37, number 1, →DOI

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