The tiniest bones, the ossicles, are inside the ear. The largest bone is the thigh bone, or femur (in your upper leg). More than half of the bones consists of the tiny bones in your hands and feet.
The skull is made up of twenty nine bones. The round part of the skull, the part that encases the brain, is called the cranium, and consists of eight bones. The face, including the lower jaw, consists of fourteen bones. There are three tiny bones in each ear. And there is a single bone - the hyoid bone in the throat.
The spinal column consists of twenty six hollow cylinders of bones called vertebrae. If you strung together twenty-six spools of thread on a stiff wire in the shape of a very open letter S, you would have constructed something that looks much like the human spinal column.
The chest consists of twenty five bones: one breast bone, called the sternum, and twenty four ribs.Seven pairs of ribs attached to the spinal column at one end and the sternum at the other. Three pairs of ribs attach only to the spinal column, curve around to the front, but do not meet the sternum. And two pairs of ribs, called floating ribs, extend from the spine only partway around to the front.
There are two collar bones, and two shoulder bones. Each arm consists of one upper- arm bone and two lower-arm bones. There are eight bones in the wrist. The palm of each hand is made up of five bones,and fourteen bones make up the fingers of a hand.
There are two hip bones. Each leg has one thigh bone, one kneecap, one shinbone and one bone on the other side of the lower leg.
The ankle of each foot consists of seven bones and the foot, itself, of five, while fourteen bones make up the toes of each foot.
