Department of Medical Neuroscience, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Foundational Sciences Discipline, Central Michigan University College of Medicine, Mount Pleasant, Michigan.
Clin Anat. 2020 Mar;33(2):187-191. doi: 10.1002/ca.23425. Epub 2019 Jul 1.
Textbooks frequently report that there are 206 human bones, or 200 bones and 6 auditory ossicles. The human bone counts in history and within adulthood were reviewed. Tallies of 197 to 307 bones have been reported over the past several centuries. The relatively low modern reckoning of 206 was due to exclusion of teeth and sesamoid ossicles, and to reassessments of the hyoid, sacrum, coccyx, and sternum as unitary bones. An audit of bone counts during adulthood failed to confirm a rational justification for the total of 206. The number is higher in young adults and lower in the elderly. Difficulties in establishing a definitive bone count include individual differences and the inconsistency of viewing the adult cranium as a collection of 21 bones. Clin. Anat. 33:187-191, 2020. © 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
教科书通常报告说人体有 206 块骨头，或者 200 块骨头和 6 块听小骨。本文回顾了历史和成人时期的人类骨骼计数。在过去的几个世纪里，有报道称人类骨骼数量在 197 到 307 块之间。现代相对较低的 206 计数是由于排除了牙齿和籽骨，以及重新评估了舌骨、骶骨、尾骨和胸骨作为单一骨骼。对成年人骨骼计数的审核未能证实 206 总数的合理理由。年轻人的数量较高，老年人的数量较低。确定明确的骨骼计数存在困难，包括个体差异和将成人颅骨视为 21 块骨骼集合的不一致性。临床解剖学 33:187-191, 2020。© 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
