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endoskeleton

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endoskeleton

Internal supporting structure of vertebrates, made up of cartilage or bone. It provides support, and acts as a system of levers to which muscles are attached to provide movement. Certain parts of the skeleton (the skull and ribs) give protection to vital body organs.

Sponges are supported by a network of rigid, or semirigid, spiky structures called spicules; a bath sponge is the proteinaceous skeleton of a sponge.



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To the liberal with the endoskeleton structure, both of those seem like logical non sequiturs.
That meant going back to the makeup and puppet master Stan Winston, who brought the original endoskeleton under Arnold's bad 1984 Terminator to life .
We humans have a skeleton inside our bodies--an endoskeleton.
 
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