What is the correct answer for number of bones in human body 208 or 206?

Answer 1

THE GENERAL framework of the body is built up mainly of a series of bones, supplemented, however, in certain regions by pieces of cartilage; the bony part of the framework constitutes the skeleton.

In the skeleton of the adult there are 206 distinct bones, as follows:—

Axial
Skeleton
Vertebral column-26
Skull- 22
Hyoid bone- 1
Ribs and sternum-25
74
Appendicular
Skeleton
Upper extremities-64
Lower extremities-62
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126
Auditory ossicles
Bones in the ear- 6
Total

206

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What is the correct answer for number of bones in human body 208 or 206?

Answer 3

206

Answer 4

206

Answer 5

The number can vary within an individual, but on average, the human body contains 206 bones.

Answer 6

206 bones

Answer 7

If you consider the Sternum to be a single bone you count 206 bones, as opposed to considering it as three separate bones (Manubrium, Gladiolus & Ensiform/Xiphoid Appendix) which makes 208. In adults, this is.

Answer 8

An adult human has 206 bones, which account for 14 percent of the body’s total weight. The longest and strongest bone is the thighbone, which at maturity is about 50 cm (20 in) long and 2.5 cm (1 in) wide. The smallest bone, the stirrup bone, is one of three tiny bones buried within the middle ear; it is only 0.18 cm (0.07 in) long.

Answer 9

there are 300 bones in the body in the infant stage .due to developmental processes in an adult this number reduces to 206
the femur or the thigh bone forms the largest one and the stapes bone of the ear forms the smallest.attached to the stapes is also the smallest muscle the stapedius

Answer 10

I think 206