MICROANATOMY

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. The appendicular skeleton consists of 126 bones and includes the free appendages and their attachments to the axial skeleton.

Detailed explanation-3: -SEER Training: Axial Skeleton (80 bones)

Detailed explanation-4: -Axial Skeleton Definition Eighty bones comprise this skeleton system and are divided into six parts: the skull, the middle ear’s ossicles, the hyoid bone, the sternum, the rib cage and the vertebral column. The axial skeleton constitutes the skull, vertebral column, laryngeal skeleton, and thoracic cage.

Detailed explanation-5: -The adult human skeleton is composed of 80% cortical bone and 20% trabecular bone overall (3). Different bones and skeletal sites within bones have different ratios of cortical to trabecular bone.