What comes to your mind when you hear the word skeleton? Maybe last hallowen? While you may associate the skeletal system with the dead, it’s axtually an integral part of our liing bodies

What comes to your mind when you hear the word skeleton? Maybe last hallowen? While you may associate the skeletal system with the dead, it’s axtually an integral part of our liing bodies. It is made up of 206 bones that provide form and support, protect the inner organs, and together with muscle, bones also help in performing different types of movements. Now, our skeleton can be divided into an axial and an appendicular skeleton. Let’s star with the bones of the axial skeleton, which consists of the bones of the head, neck and trunk. These bones include the skull or the cranium, a small bone in the neck called the hyoid bone, the vertebral column, and the ribs and sternum. The appendicular skeleton, on the other hand, consists of the bones of the upper and lower limbs.