How many bones are in an adult skeleton?

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Suren Abreu
Jun 6, 2017

If you refer to an adult human skeleton, the answer is 206.

Explanation:

The human skeleton has around 305 bones at birth, but since some of these fuse during the growth phase of the infant, the total number of bones in a human adult is 206.

Most of these bones that fuse together are in the cranium.

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