écorché

[ey-kawr-shey]

écor·ché

[ey-kawr-shey]
noun
an anatomical model of part or all of the human body with the skin removed, to allow study of the underlying musculature.
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écorché is always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
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écorché (ˌeɪkɔːˈʃeɪ)
 
n
an anatomical figure without the skin, so that the muscular structure is visible
 
[C19: French, literally: skinned]

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