List of bones of the human skeleton
A normal adult
human skeleton consists of the following 206
bones.
In the skull (22):
- Cranial bones:
- Facial bones:
In the middle ears (6):
In the throat (1):
In the shoulder girdle (4):
In the thorax (25):
In the vertebral column (24):
- cervical vertebrae (7) incl. atlas & axis
- thoracic vertebrae (12)
- lumbar vertebrae (5)
In the arms (6):
In the hands (54):
- Wrist (carpal) bones:
- Palm or metacarpal bones:
- Finger bones or phalanges:
- proximal phalanges (5 x 2)
- intermediate phalanges (4 x 2)
- distal phalanges (5 x 2)
In the pelvis (4):
In the legs (8):
In the feet (52):
- Ankle (tarsal) bones:
- calcaneus (heel bone) (2)
- talus (2)
- navicular bone (2)
- medial cuneiform bone (2)
- intermediate cuneiform bone (2)
- lateral cuneiform bone (2)
- cuboid bone (2)
- Instep bones:
- Toe bones:
- proximal phalanges (5 x 2)
- intermediate phalanges (4 x 2)
- distal phalanges (5 x 2)
The infant skeleton has the following bones in addition to those above:
- sacral vertebrae (4 or 5), which fuse in adults to form the sacrum
- coccygeal vertebrae (3 to 5), which fuse in adults to form the coccyx
- ilium, ischium and pubis, which fuse in adults to form the pelvic girdle