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List of bones of the human skeleton

A normal adult human skeleton consists of the following 206 bones.

In the skull (22):

In the middle ears (6): In the throat (1): In the shoulder girdle (4): In the thorax (25): In the vertebral column (24): In the arms (6): In the hands (54): In the pelvis (4): In the legs (8): In the feet (52): The infant skeleton has the following bones in addition to those above:
  1. sacral vertebrae (4 or 5), which fuse in adults to form the sacrum
  2. coccygeal vertebrae (3 to 5), which fuse in adults to form the coccyx
  3. ilium, ischium and pubis, which fuse in adults to form the pelvic girdle