Health Sciences 2300A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Costal Cartilage, Inferior Nasal Concha, Parietal Bone

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 2300A/B
• Professor: Christopher William James Melling

Document Summary

Together, the bones, muscles, and joints form an integrated system called the musculoskeletal system. The branch of medical science concerned with the prevention or correction of disorders of the musculoskeletal system is called orthopedics. The adult human skeleton consists of 206 named bones; most of them are paired, with one member of each pair on the right side of the body and the other on the left. The skeletons of infants and children have more than 206 bones because some of their bones fuse later in life: bones are grouped into two principal divisions: the axial skeleton and the appendicular skeleton. 80 bones of the axial skeleton and the 126 bones of the appendicular skeleton. the axial skeleton as consisting of the bones that lie around the longitudinal axis of the human body. The appendicular skeleton consists of the bones of the upper and lower limbs, or append- ages.