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the scaffolding you never see until it's all that's left of you.
means Relating to a skeleton, or reduced to the bare bones — describing something extremely thin, or a structure stripped down to its essential framework.
from From the Greek 'skeletos,' meaning 'dried up' or 'withered' — the word for a mummy or dried body, built from 'skellein,' to dry out. The skeleton, then, is literally 'the dried thing': what remains when everything soft and living has been parched away. English took it up by the 17th century, and 'skeletal' followed as the adjective for anything sharing that bare, desiccated quality.
- bone count
- babies start with 300, adults keep 206
- live tissue
- bone constantly rebuilds itself every decade
- strongest bone
- the femur outmuscles concrete pound for pound
- hidden organ
- marrow makes billions of blood cells daily
- sole exception
- the hyoid floats unattached to any other bone
lucy — 3.2 million year old hominin skeleton found in ethiopia in 1974
otzi the iceman — 5,300 year old mummified skeleton discovered in the alps in 1991
kennewick man — 9,000 year old skeleton found in washington state in 1996