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How many bones are there in the adult human skeleton ?

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How many bones are there in the adult human skeleton ?
posted May 14, 2015 by Basabdatta Mukherjee

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There are 206 named bones a normal, complete, adult human skeleton.

However, individual people / skeletons may have more than 206 bones including various small un-named bones that have formed over time, usually in certain high-friction areas of the body.

answer May 23, 2015 by Amit Kumar Pandey
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206 bones in the adult human skeleton.

answer Jan 31, 2016 by Anand Kumar Gupta
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