ANATOMY

GENERAL ANATOMY

SKELETAL ANATOMY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
How many bones is a baby born with?
A
300
B
206
C
126
D
80
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -A baby’s body has about 300 bones at birth. These eventually fuse (grow together) to form the 206 bones that adults have.

Detailed explanation-2: -This is because babies have more cartilage than bone. New born babies have around 305 bones. A baby’s skeleton is mostly made up of cartilage.As a person grows up, most of this cartilage turns into bone in a process called ossification.By adulthood, the skeleton has just 206 bones.

Detailed explanation-3: -Hint: The human skeleton refers to the internal framework of the body. It consists of 270 to 300 bones at birth. But this total number of bones decreases to 206 bones by adulthood as some bones fuse together.

Detailed explanation-4: -The baby skeleton has more bones and cartilages. During development many of these cartilages become bones by the process called ossification and some bones fuse to form a bigger bone reducing the number of bones to 206.

Detailed explanation-5: -There are three hundred bones in children. That changes as they reach adulthood.

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