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the scaffolding you'll wear forever, quietly outlasting every version of you that complained about it
means The internal framework of bones that supports and shapes a body, or by extension any bare supporting structure of a thing.
from From Greek 'skeleton', short for 'skeleton soma' meaning 'dried-up body' — the neuter of 'skeletos', 'dried up, withered', from the verb 'skellein', 'to dry out'. So a skeleton is literally what's left when everything moist and living has gone: the body desiccated down to its frame. It entered English in the late 1500s, and from the bones outward the word spread to anything stripped to its essentials — a skeleton crew, the skeleton of a plan.
- full swap
- Your skeleton replaces itself roughly every decade
- bone bank
- Bones store calcium your blood borrows when low
- infant count
- Babies have around 300 bones, adults 206
- living tissue
- Bone repairs itself like any other organ
- hidden marrow
- Inside bones, billions of blood cells are born daily
lucy — 3.2 million year old hominin skeleton found in ethiopia, 40% complete
otzi the iceman — 5,300 year old mummified skeleton discovered in alps, arrow wound visible
piltdown man — famous hoax skeleton claimed in 1912 sussex, exposed as fraud in 1953