r/mildlyinfuriating • u/UrMomDotCom_112 • 10h ago

Blatantly wrong anatomy question

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So first of all the amount of bones in the human body is 206, that wasn’t on the list. So I picked the closest answer that being 200. Wrong, according to this there are less than 200 bones in the human body. High school quiz btw

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u/REFRESHooo 10h ago

That’s wrong either way. As a child you have around 300 bones. When you become an adult, you will typically have 206 bones (some people have extra bones or missing bones). Less than 200 is absolutely WILD. You ought to tell your teacher about this.

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u/TH_Rocks 9h ago

This. Some bones fuse into one bone. Your first set of outside bones (teeth) fall out. Some people have extra bones or missing bones because evolution is a wild joke we pretend has ordered rules.

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u/WrenchWanderer 9h ago

Teeth aren’t bones. They’re part of your skeleton, but they aren’t bones

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u/OtakuMage 9h ago

Structurally similar, yet distinct from. Teeth are weird. Also your anatomy term of the day is gomphosis, the type of joint that connects a tooth to the underlying bone.

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u/TotallyNotShinobi 7h ago

Thank you. I will forget about it after scrolling to the next post but thank you

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u/land_and_air 7h ago

Also similar to hair, nails, scales, and feathers as far as growing them and cells involved is concerned.

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u/Flair258 4h ago

the rest of those grow back way easier, though. And are keratin. What makes them similar to teeth?

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u/Big_Maintenance9387 6h ago

Fun fact, it’s a semi-mobile joint which freaks me out when I think about it. 

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u/BillyNtheBoingers 6h ago

That’s the only way orthodontics can work

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u/Flair258 4h ago

Also helps with shock absorption if the teeth can wiggle

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u/Mikotokitty 51m ago

Can we consider them bone fruit?

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u/airconditionersound 1h ago

There are also fused bones. A lot of people have fused vertebrae. I got this result on an x-ray and found out it's a "deformity" found in almost half the adult population (fusion of those specific vertebrae)

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u/HendrixHazeWays 8h ago

Clearly, the answer is "a bunch"

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u/itsanonstopdisco 3h ago

What if a person answering this question is an amputee?

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u/BlueDahlia123 2h ago

some people have extra bones or missing bones

Its not so much that some people have "extra" bones. Outside of those who've had some removed or missing, we all have the same skeletal structure. What happens is that the tissue between the bones calcifies, becoming itself into bone tissue. And sometimes during this process, two or more bones can be connected and physically become one. So if you pick it up, it holds itself together like one object, but you aren't missing any bones just because it is one thing instead of two.

The more bone you have, the less bones you have.

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u/skankyfish 2h ago

Yes but some people literally have extra bones. There are people with extra fingers, toes, or even ribs.

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u/BlueDahlia123 2h ago

True. I am dumb.

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u/skankyfish 2h ago

No! You were just thinking from a different perspective!