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MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The system of muscles and tendons and ligaments and bones and joints and associated tissues that move the body and maintain its form
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("musculoskeletal system" is a kind of...):
system (a group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts)
Meronyms (parts of "musculoskeletal system"):
muscle system; muscular structure; musculature (the muscular system of an organism)
frame; skeletal system; skeleton; systema skeletale (the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal)
Holonyms ("musculoskeletal system" is a part of...):
body; organic structure (the entire physical structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being))
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