• Question: how many bones are there in the body

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      Asked by anon-285890 on 4 Mar 2021.
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        Jesko Koehnke answered on 4 Mar 2021:

        Not a medical doctor, but I believe that changes over time. Children have about 300, some of which then fuse, which makes it about 210 in an adult human.

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        Martin McCoustra answered on 4 Mar 2021:

        I cheated on this… Google says 206 in the adult body. But I know that in children, especially babies, there are some bones in the skull that are fused together as a single bone in adults. So children have a few more.

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        Matt Foulkes answered on 4 Mar 2021:

        I think it’s 206 if I remember rightly. But I think you have even more than that as a child, and some of these fuse together as you grow up.

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        Nikita King answered on 5 Mar 2021:

        There are ~206 bones that make up an adult human body, interestingly babies are born with ~300. Some of them start to fuse together which is why that number changes as they grow up!

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        Ane Valera answered on 5 Mar 2021:

        We normally have around 206, but some people grow with extra teeth ( like wisdom teeth, extra toes…) so the number will increase in those cases. And depending on the age, we have more or less bones as they tend to fuse! so I bet you all have more bones that I do!

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