It would seem that human anatomy has been very well studied for many hundreds of years. Yes, you can argue and study some of the processes in the human body, but is it difficult to answer a simple technical question - How many bones are in a person?
You will be surprised, but you will not find the answer to this question anywhere …
The question of how many bones a person has is purely medical in nature, and oddly enough, there is no definite answer for him.
The number of bones can be indicated only when taking into account the age of a person and his individual characteristics. So, in an adult, the skeleton usually consists of 206 bones, and at the same time, a child has about 300 bones in the skeleton. But why is there such a difference, and how does a child's skeleton differ from an adult? Why can an adult have more or less bones? Medicine has answers to these questions.
Why can an adult have more or less bones?
The fact is that in an adult, many bones grow together, becoming a single whole, and at the same time, in a child, the same bones can consist of separate fragments, connected only by cartilaginous tissues. Hence this age-dependent difference arises. The fusion of a number of bones begins in infancy, and later, with the arrival of the late adolescence, this process ends.
Variation in the number of bones in an adult is observed due to the fact that under certain conditions some bones may not grow together, or bone fusion may occur, which in most people remains separately located until the end of days. In addition, additional bones may appear for a number of reasons.
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So, for example, there is such a disease as polydactyly. In this case, a person may have sixth fingers - on one hand, on both, or on the hands and feet. An extra finger is an extra bone that will remain in the body if the person does not undergo surgery to remove the extra finger. Here is one example that clearly demonstrates the variation in bone count.
And that's not to mention injuries that can lead to an increase or decrease in the number of bones in the body. Each person is individual, and in terms of the skeleton, this is also relevant.
That's it!