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English: diagram of a human female skeleton, back view. the Red lines point individual bones and the names are writen in singular, the blue lines conect to group of bones and are in plural form.
Front/back view of a female human skeleton. Articles this image appears in Skeleton, Human skeleton, human anatomy Creator LadyofHats. Support as nominator MER-C 08:52, 26 September 2007 (UTC) Support high quality diagrams, very encyclopaedic --Luc Viatour 09:01, 26 September 2007 (UTC) Support This is a no-brainer. You read "LadyofHats", you ...
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The human back, also called the dorsum (pl.: dorsa), is the large posterior area of the human body, rising from the top of the buttocks to the back of the neck. [1] It is the surface of the body opposite from the chest and the abdomen. The vertebral column runs the length of the back and
In human anatomy, the five vertebrae are between the rib cage and the pelvis.They are the largest segments of the vertebral column and are characterized by the absence of the foramen transversarium within the transverse process (since it is only found in the cervical region) and by the absence of facets on the sides of the body (as found only in the thoracic region).
Description: the adult skull is normally made up of 22 bones. Except for the mandible, all of the bones of the skull are joined together by sutures, semi-rigid articulations formed by bony ossification, the presence of Sharpey's fibres permitting a little flexibility
It is composed of 270 bones at the time of birth, [2] but later decreases to 206: 80 bones in the axial skeleton and 126 bones in the appendicular skeleton. 172 of 206 bones are part of a pair and the remaining 34 are unpaired. [3] Many small accessory bones, such as sesamoid bones, are not included in this.
Human_skeleton_diagram.png: (Source: Collier's New Encyclopedia, VIII (New York: P.F. Collier & Son Company, 1921), p. 446. derivative work: GregorDS ( talk ) 09:18, 21 December 2011 (UTC) This is a retouched picture , which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version.