Human Skeleton Anatomy - 10 Facts About the Human Skeleton!
The skeleton principles is what holds everything together. In this article, I will share some fun trivia in relation to human skeleton anatomy and physiology.
Human Skeleton Anatomy - 10 Facts About the Human Skeleton!
- Babies have colse to 350 personel bones, while a grown up adult has 206. The theorize for this is because many bones fuse together as we grow older. Examples are the cranium and the pelvis.
- The spine is in a way the base of our skeleton and anchors all other bones. It is composed of 33 small bones called vertebrae.
- The largest part of our skeleton is the femur, which is the upper part of our thigh, while the smallest is the stapes bone.
- The human skeleton inventory for about 20 percent of an regular sized persons total body weight.
- The functions of the skeleton is not only to be a framework for the body, but it also produces red and white blood cells, shop minerals and protects vital organs.
- There are different type of bones; long bones, short bones, flat bones, irregular bones and sesamoid bones.
- The bones come in 2 different categories, the ageement bones(also known as dense bones), and trabecular bones(also called spongy bones). The ageement type contributes to about 80 percent of total bone mass.
- Joints are where two or more bones connect. There are 2 different ways of categorizing joints, by the way they join together and by mobility.
- In structural classification, the types of joints are fibrous joints(joined with fibrous tissue), cartilaginous joints(joined by cartilage) and synovial joints(not directly joined).
- By mobility, the types are called synarthrosis(little or no mobility), amphiarthrosis(slight movement) and diarthrosis(freely movable).
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