Parts of the Human Body Skeleton and Explanation (Complete)

Parts of the Human Body Skeleton and Explanation (Complete) - The body is not only made up of skin and meat only, try to touch starting from the feet, fingers, head, body and everything in your body. There must be a hard part in it. The hard part is the bone.

Parts of the Human Body Skeleton and Explanation (Complete)

The bones are interconnected, connected and arranged regularly to form a skeleton. In this discussion, we will discuss about what the parts of the human body skeleton are.

Newborns have more than 300 pieces of bone, but mostly cartilage. But as it grows into an adult, the number of bones decreases and the bones become harder because of the fusion of bones. The number of mature bones is 206 hard bones.

Human Body Skeletal Parts

The human skeleton consists of the head, body and limbs.

Head Frame (skull)

The bones that make up the skeleton of the head include the forehead, nose, upper jaw, lower jaw and cheekbones. The skeleton of the head on the front forms the basis of the human face. The bones that make up the face are the forehead, nose, upper jaw, lower jaw and cheekbones. While on the back frame of the head in the form of a skull.

Body Frame

The body skeleton is composed from the neck to the tailbone. The cervical vertebrae are formed by 7 vertebrae. The cervical spine is continuous with the spine and tailbone. From the spine to the tailbone, there are 26 vertebrae.

So, the number of vertebrae from the neck to the tailbone is 33. At the front, the ribs are attached to the sternum. The sternum and ribs form the chest cavity. The rib cage (shoulder) is above the chest cavity. The shoulder is formed by the shoulder blade and collarbone. As for the lower body there is a hip frame formed by the pubic bone and hip bone.

Body Member

Which consists of upper limbs and lower limbs. The upper limbs are called the hands (arms), while the lower limbs are also called the feet. The skeleton of the arm is formed by the bones of the upper arm, the ulna, the lever, the wrist, the palm, and the fingers.

While the skeleton of the foot is formed by the femur, kneecap, shin, calf, ankle, sole and toes. The largest human bone is the femur.

The human body skeleton can be moved because of the cooperation between bone, joints and muscle. To skeleton function can be seen in the previous article.

Thus our discussion this time about Parts of the Human Body Skeleton and Explanation (Complete), hopefully it can be useful for readers. Thank you so much