ANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -More than half of the bones in your body are found in your hands and feet. There are 27 in each hand and 26 in each foot, and the way that they are arranged is remarkably similar. If you bend your fingers, you can see that they each contain three bones, except for your thumbs, which only have two.

Detailed explanation-2: -The hands and feet contain over half of the body’s bones. Coming out on top are your hands and feet. Each hand has 27 bones, and each foot has 26, which means that together the body’s two hands and two feet have 106 bones. That is, the hands and feet contain more than half of the bones in your entire body.

Detailed explanation-3: -The human hand contains twenty-seven bones compared to twenty-six in the foot. The extra bone in the hand, the pisiform, is a carpal and an example of a sesamoid bone. This type is derived from a ten-don (example: patella). Pisiform aside, each hand bone has its counterpart in the foot.

Detailed explanation-4: -More than half of your bones are in your hands and your feet. 106 of them to be exact. There are 54 bones in your hands, fingers and wrists. 26 bones in the human foot.

Detailed explanation-5: -The adult human hand has the most bones. One hand contains 27 bones, so together, both hands contain 54 bones. This is just slightly more than the foot, each of which have 26 bones, for a total of 52 bones in both feet.