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A supporting skeleton located within an organism’s body.
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- bony endoskeleton
- artificial endoskeleton
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The scan showed a cartilaginous endoskeleton.
The fictional android’s endoskeleton remained intact beneath the torn covering.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular endoskeleton; plural endoskeletons. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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