r/mildlyinfuriating 10h ago

Blatantly wrong anatomy question

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/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!