adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
muscle
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The inflammatory process was seen to extend into adjacent skeletal muscle and was consistent with a diagnosis of Riedel's thyroiditis.
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Consideration is given first to the anatomic arrangement of the nervous and skeletal muscle systems involved in this activity.
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Finally, we determined the activities of the respiratory chain enzymes in skeletal muscle .
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Another possibility is that caffeine affects skeletal muscles indirectly.
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Here the processes of breakdown are qualitatively similar to those in vertebrate skeletal muscle .
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Gap junctions are distributed in a wide variety of tissues, with the possible exceptions of adult skeletal muscles and most neurones.
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Their properties are in some ways intermediate between those of the skeletal muscles and the smooth muscles found in other phyla.
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Histologically they differ from skeletal muscle in having smaller fibres, linked by desmosomes and sometimes containing only one fibril.
remains
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Occasionally the silica-rich skeletal remains of single-celled marine organisms, diatoms, and of sponges occur in pottery.
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In shallow marine sediments from anywhere on the present Earth one might expect to find the skeletal remains and teeth of sharks.
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Her skeletal remains were found then.
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The handprints on the walls match the size of hands from skeletal remains of Paleolithic women.
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The remains , however, appear to be little more than hair and fragments of flesh covering ghastly skeletal remains.
structure
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It had no more than a skeletal structure and embraced liberals as well as socialists.
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However, most of these were skeletal structures with very few members.
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Between the fourth and eighth week all the main organs are formed together with the limbs and beginnings of skeletal structure .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Daly's skeletal remains were found almost a month later.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Even a skeletal list of the fundamentally important matters which we thus take for granted would be very long.
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Excavators have found skeletal and cremated remains in some megalithic structures, but by no means all.
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He ran a skeletal hand over the bristles of his hair.
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His studies would lead to the identification of several dozen other forms of dwarfism, or skeletal dysplasia.
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Robert Dornan of California run skeletal campaigns, and their staff could not be reached for this story.
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The central exhibit is a bright pink, skeletal temple in which the Prince's central advice to architects is enshrined.
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They run wild into the woods, filthy, skeletal and naked.
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They were skeletal and covered in mange.