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MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM

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 I. (noun) 

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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:

Nouns denoting body parts

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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