Let's take a look at the inside of a human skull.
There are 22 bones inside. If you count the inner ear and sublingual, you get 29.
There are 22 bones inside. If you count the inner ear and sublingual, you get 29.
Skeleton, bones of the: The human body has 206 bones. These consist of 80 axial (head and trunk) bones and 126 appendicular (upper and lower extremity) bones.
Axial bones: The 80 axial bones comprise 29 bones in the head and 51 bones in the trunk.
Head bones: The 29 head bones consist of 8 cranial bones, 14 facial bones, the hyoid bone, and 6 auditory (ear) bones.
The 8 cranial bones are the frontal, 2 parietal, occipital, 2 temporal, sphenoid, and ethmoid bones.
The 14 facial bones are the maxilla, mandible, 2 zygoma, 2 lacrimal, 2 nasal, 2 turbinate, 2 vomer, and 2 palate bones.
The hyoid bone is a horseshoe-shaped bone at the base of the tongue.
The 6 auditory ossicles (little bones) are the malleus, incus, and stapes in each ear.