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Skeet shooting
Skeet shooting is a shotgun sport in which shooters at stations around a semicircular field fire at clay targets crossing from a high and a low trap house.
Skeet Ulrich
Skeet Ulrich (Bryan Ray Trout, born 1970) is an American actor known as Billy Loomis in Scream (1996), Jake Green in Jericho, and FP Jones on Riverdale; recently Henry Emily in Five Nights at Freddy's 2.
Skeeter Davis
Skeeter Davis (Mary Frances Penick, 1931-2004), American country singer of the Davis Sisters duo, famous for the crossover hit "The End of the World" and a Grand Ole Opry member 1959-2004.
Skeeter syndrome
Skeeter syndrome, also called a large local mosquito bite reaction, is an IgE- and IgG-mediated allergic reaction to mosquito saliva causing large red, swollen, itchy lesions within hours, mimicking cellulitis, most common in young atopic children, resolving in 3-10 days.
Skegness
Skegness is a Lincolnshire seaside resort on the North Sea coast, developed as a planned Victorian resort by the ninth Earl of Scarbrough after the 1873 railway, later home to Butlin's amusements.
Skeid fotball
Skeid fotball, Oslo football department of Skeid (founded 1915, merged 1925), eight Norwegian Cups, one league title, home at Nordre Åsen since 2013, playing 2. divisjon in 2026.
Skein (hash function)
Skein is a family of cryptographic hash functions built on the Threefish block cipher; it was a SHA-3 finalist, but NIST chose Keccak in 2012.
Skein module theory
Skein module theory studies skein modules, algebraic objects assigned to 3-manifolds by taking links modulo local skein relations; it was introduced independently by Przytycki and Turaev around 1987.
Skein relation
A skein relation is a linear relation among link diagrams identical except at one crossing site, which defines and computes polynomial invariants of knots and links.
Skeksis
Skeksis: fictional reptilian, bird-like villain race of Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal (1982) and its Netflix prequel; 18 decadent lords who split from the urSkeks, rule Thra's Crystal of Truth, and were performed by six puppeteers per puppet.
Skeletá
Skeletá is Ghost's sixth studio album, released April 25, 2025 on Loma Vista, featuring Papa V Perpetua; it gave the band its first US Billboard 200 No. 1.
Skeletal animation
Skeletal animation, also called skinned animation, is a technique for animating a 3D mesh by attaching it to a skeleton of joints, the standard method for character animation in games.
Skeletal editing
Skeletal editing is a class of organic chemistry reactions that insert, delete, or swap single atoms within a molecule's carbon framework, important in drug discovery.
Skeletal editing of arenes by nitrene insertion
Skeletal editing of arenes by nitrene insertion is a family of reactions that inserts one nitrogen atom into an aromatic ring, as in arene-to-pyridine conversion.
Skeletal editing via nitrogen deletion
Skeletal editing via nitrogen deletion is a synthetic strategy that removes a nitrogen atom directly from a molecule's ring or chain, converting it into a new skeleton.
Skeletal Ewing sarcoma
Skeletal Ewing sarcoma, also called Ewing sarcoma of bone or pPNET, is an EWSR1-ETS fusion-driven small round cell tumor of bone in the young; distinguished from extraosseous Ewing sarcoma by primary site and somewhat worse prognosis.
Skeletal fluorosis
Skeletal fluorosis (ICD-11 FB80.1) is chronic fluoride toxicity of bone from high water, tea, coal, or occupational exposure, causing osteosclerosis, ligament calcification, pain, deformity, and fracture risk.
Skeletal formula
The skeletal formula, also known as the bond-line formula or line-angle formula, is a two-dimensional shorthand for molecular structures in which carbon atoms and their hydrogens are omitted.
Skeletal muscle
Skeletal muscle: voluntary striated muscle tissue, over 600 muscles of multinucleated fibers; sarcomeres with actin-myosin sliding filaments, type I/II fiber types, myokine endocrine role, sarcopenia and muscular dystrophies.
Skeletal muscle fiber
Skeletal muscle fiber (myofiber, muscle fiber): a large multinucleate muscle cell formed by myoblast fusion, containing myofibrils and sarcolemma. Types I, IIA, IIX (formerly IIB) classified by myosin heavy chain or mATPase; highly plastic, sex- and age-dependent.
Skeletal muscle myoblast
Skeletal muscle myoblast (skeletal myoblast, CL:0000515), a mononucleated progenitor that differentiates and fuses into multinucleate skeletal muscle fibers; derived embryonically from somites and postnatally from satellite cells.
Skeletal muscle satellite cell
The skeletal muscle satellite cell (myosatellite cell) is the resident stem cell of skeletal muscle, discovered in 1961 by Mauro and Katz, lying between basal lamina and sarcolemma, quiescent until activated to supply myoblasts for muscle growth and repair.
Skeletal Muscle Ventricle
Skeletal Muscle Ventricle (SMV), an autologous skeletal-muscle pumping chamber, usually latissimus dorsi, electrically conditioned and connected to assist a failing heart; experimental alternative to mechanical ventricular assist devices.
Skeletal survey
A skeletal survey is a series of about twenty X-ray images of the entire skeleton, used mainly to detect fractures in suspected child abuse and bone disease in multiple myeloma.
Skeletal traction
Skeletal traction is an orthopedic treatment in which a pin or wire inserted directly into bone applies a steady pulling force to align a fracture or immobilize a limb.
Skeletochronology
Skeletochronology estimates the age and growth history of amphibians, reptiles, fish, and other vertebrates by counting annual growth lines in bone cross-sections, formally introduced by Castanet and Smirina in 1990.
Skeletogenic cell
Skeletogenic cell (Cell Ontology CL:0007001): umbrella term for cells forming skeletal tissue, including osteoblasts, chondroblasts, and chondrocytes, arising from skeletal stem and progenitor cells in periosteum and bone marrow.
Skeleton
A skeleton is the system of structures supporting an animal's body, protecting its organs, and enabling movement, taking three forms: hydrostatic skeleton, exoskeleton, and endoskeleton.
Skeleton (sport)
Skeleton: head-first, prone ice-track sliding sport invented at St Moritz in the late 1800s on the Cresta Run; Olympic in 1928, 1948, and permanently since 2002, governed by the IBSF.
Skeleton Coast
Skeleton Coast: northern Atlantic shore of Namibia, about 500 km from the Ugab to the Kunene River, famed for Benguela Current fog, whale bones and shipwrecks such as the Eduard Bohlen and Zeila, largely within Skeleton Coast National Park.