appendicular skeleton

1. 1.

   the part of the skeleton that includes the pectoral girdle and the pelvic girdle and the upper and lower limbs

   Broaderskeletal structure

   Part ofendoskeleton

   Partslimbpectoral girdlepelvis

Questions about appendicular skeleton

What does appendicular skeleton mean?

appendicular skeleton means "the part of the skeleton that includes the pectoral girdle and the pelvic girdle and the upper and lower limbs".

Is appendicular skeleton a common word?

appendicular skeleton is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.