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Built of bones
The bones in your skeleton are hard, strong and light. Without a skeleton, you’d look like a bag of jelly!
Your brain is inside your skull
A baby is born with 300 bones, but some bones join together as you get older. Grown-ups usually have 206 bones.
Your skull protects your brain and your ribs protect your heart and lungs.
The tiniest bones
in the body are found inside your ear and help you to hear.
Your hip is a ball and socket joint
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1. Skull 2. Ribs 3. Arms 4. Spine 5. Hip 6. Hand and finger bones 7. Thigh bone 8. Kneecap 9. Shinbone 10. Foot and toe bones
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Your elbow is a hinge joint
Bones can’t bend, so you have joints where two bones meet. These allow you to move parts of your body in different ways.
Your spine is made up of small bones called vertebrae. It helps you stand up straight, but it can bend, too.
You have 33 vertebrae in your spine
Doctors can use special x-ray machines to take pictures of the bones inside your body.
Hand X-ray
