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Endoskeleton

noun
1.
The internal skeleton; bony and cartilaginous structure (especially of vertebrates).





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... true of several groups of Vertebrata which have lived through a considerable range of time, that the endoskeleton (more particularly the spinal column) of the older genera presents a less ossified, and, so far, less differentiated, condition than that of the younger genera. Thus the Devonian Ganoids, though almost all members of the same sub-order as 'Polypterus', ...
— Geological Contemporaneity and Persistent Types of Life • Thomas H. Huxley


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