List of Bones of The Human Skeleton
List of Bones of The Human Skeleton
List of Bones of The Human Skeleton
Functions:
1. Supporting the body as an internal framework.
2. Protecting many of its soft organs.
3. The skeleton provides a system of levers the skeletal muscles use to move the body.
4. Bones store lipids and many minerals (most importantly calcium)
5. Bones provide a site for blood cell formation in their marrow cavities.
2 DIVISION:
1. AXIAL Skeleton – those bones that form the body’s longitudinal axis
3 parts: (1) skull (2) the bony thorax (3) vertebral column
2. APPENDICULAR Skeleton – bones of the girdles and limbs
2 parts: (1) limbs – upper and lower limbs (2) girdles – attachment of the limbs
A typical adult human skeleton consists of the following 206 bones. The exact number of the
bones in the human skeleton is different in each person.
Cranial bones:
o frontal bones
o Parietal bone (2)
o temporal bones (2)
o occipital bone
o sphenoid bone
o ethmoid bone
Facial bones:
o mandible
o maxilla (2)
o palatine bone (2)
o zygomatic bone (2)
o nasal bone (2)
o lacrimal bone (2)
o vomer bone
o inferior nasal conchae (2)
malleus (2)
incus (2)
stapes (2)
sternum
ribs (2 x 12)
humerus (2)
radius (2)
ulna (2)
coccyx
sacrum
ossa coxae (hip bones or innominate bones) (2)
femur (2)
patella (2)
tibia (2)
fibula (2)
The infant skeleton has the following bones in addition to those above: