EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Your axial skeleton is made up of the 80 bones within the central core of your body. This includes bones in your skull (cranial and facial bones ), ears, neck, back (vertebrae, sacrum and tailbone) and ribcage (sternum and ribs).

Detailed explanation-2: -The 80 bones of the axial skeleton form the vertical axis of the body. They include the bones of the head, vertebral column, ribs and breastbone or sternum.

Detailed explanation-3: -The axial skeleton includes the bones that form the skull, laryngeal skeleton, vertebral column, and thoracic cage. The bones of the appendicular skeleton (the limbs and girdles) “append” to the axial skeleton.

Detailed explanation-4: -The axial skeleton forms the central axis of the human body and consists of the skull, vertebral column, and thoracic cage.

Detailed explanation-5: -The axial skeleton forms the central axis of the body and includes the bones of the skull, ossicles of the middle ear, hyoid bone of the throat, vertebral column, and the thoracic cage (ribcage) (Figure 1).