which is the smallest and largest bone in the human body?
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largest is the femur, smallest is the stirrup of the inner ear.
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No part of the bone remains the same size always. The bony collar (the compact bone of the shaft surrounding the medullar cavity) experiences appositional growth right up until your late teens. Osteoblasts add; osteoclasts detract, which is why to have strong, resilient bones, one must put in more than is taken away (namely, calcium salts).
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Bone is a relatively hard and lightweight composite material, formed mostly of calcium phosphate in the chemical arrangement termed calcium hydroxyapatite. It has relatively high compressive strength but poor tensile strength. While bone is essentially brittle, it does have a degree of significant elasticity contributed by its organic components (chiefly collagen). Bone has an internal mesh-like structure, the density of which may vary at different points.
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The skeleton has two main parts: the axial skeleton and the appendicular skeleton. The axial skeleton consists of the skull, the spine, the ribs and the sternum (breastbone) and includes 80 bones. The appendicular skeleton, consisting of 126 bones,  includes two limb girdles (the shoulders and pelvis) and their attached limb bones.  \n\nBTW -why not learn to use google like everyone else!
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Largest by mass is the skin.\n\nLargest by area are the lungs.\n\nThe small intestine doesn't even rate a mention by any standard.
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On Earth, since at the moment at least (and for the forseeable future) Earth is the only place for creatures.\n\nI'd vote for a virus as being the smallest, some are just shells with DNA around them. The smallest viruses are about 20 nanometers across, and the very smallest one known has only 4 genes. I believe this type of virus is so small that its host - the thing it attacks - is a microbe.\n\n\nA lot of depends on how you define a 'creature.' Just recently the worlds smallest fish was found near Sumatra, one that also claimed the smallest creature with backbone award.
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Hi there,\n\nA typical human skeleton has 206 bones.\n\nAn infant has these bones in addition to them-\n\n1 sacral vertebrae (4 or 5), which fuse in adults toform   the sacrum \n\n2 coccygeal vertebrae (3 to 5), which fuse in adults to form the coccyx \n\n3 ilium, ischium and pubis, which fuse in adults to form the pelvic girdle \n\nHope this helped. If not, please let me know. I'll be glad to provide any further assistance.\n\n\nrule wid style n luv@vinny
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That depends upon the body.  Not everyone weighs the same.  Skeletons also vary.  Then there is the question, "Were you referring to human bodies"?  Different animals have differing bone structures.  Most birds have very light skeletons by comparison to other animals.
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206.\n\nAt birth the human body has about 350 bones, but by the time adulthood rolls around, some of our bones have fused together to give us a total of 206 bones in our body!\n\n28 skull bones\n\nthe horseshoe-shaped hyoid bone of the neck; \n\n26 vertebrae\n\n24 ribs plus the sternum or breastbone(2 clavicles, the most frequently fractured bone in the body, and 2 scapulae)\n\n the pelvic girdle (2 fused bones); \n\n30 bones in our arms and legs (a total of 120); \n\nThere are also a few partial bones, ranging from 8-18 in number, which are related to joints.\n\nBasically, there are 7 vertebrae and the hyoid bone in the neck.
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doctors break your legs, set the bone after drilling metal bars into them, and bones grow in place of the bone that is now missing due to its 1 inch further down your leg, takes forever to heal, but yay, you have now grown 2 inches, very slowly, extremely painful but god damn, 2 inches is noice!
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Longest: Femur (thigh bone) about 20% of your height, in an adult male approx 14 - 20 inches\nShortest : Stirrup (in the ear) it is 0.25 to 0.33 cm long
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Biochemistry (bones are biological) and chemistry (reaction between the molecules that make up the bone, and the vinegar and baking soda).\n\nCellular and molecular biology and microbiology don't really count, since it's you're not trying to examine how it affects individual cells.
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Human bones have 206 bones only! although i'm not sure, but I have heard that new borns hav many more. anyways do not use it untill confirmed. U hav put up a very interesting question! hey!! go with deanabot he has anwered in a much better way! Bye!!!
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The Femur bone, the longest single bone in the body, is connected to the hip bone or the pelvic girdle by a ball and socket joint.
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The mandible (jaw).\n\nUnless you want to consider the 3 small bones in each inner ear (hammer, anvil and stirrup).
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At birth the human body has about 350 bones, but by the time adulthood rolls around, some of our bones have fused together to give us a total of 206 bones in our body!\n\nHere is the breakdown:\n\nThe adult skeleton consists of 206 bones . . . \n\n- 28 skull bones (8 cranial, 14 facial, and 6 ear bones); \n\n- the horseshoe-shaped hyoid bone of the neck; \n\n- 26 vertebrae (7 cervical or neck, 12 thorax, 5 lumbar or loins, the sacrum which is five fused vertebrae, and the coccyx, our vestigial tail, which is four fused vertebrae);\n\n- 24 ribs plus the sternum or breastbone; the shoulder girdle (2 clavicles, the most frequently fractured bone in the body, and 2 scapulae); \n\n- the pelvic girdle (2 fused bones); \n\n- 30 bones in our arms and legs (a total of 120); \n\n- There are also a few partial bones, ranging from 8-18 in number, which are related to joints.
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Femur is the name given to thigh bone. In human skeleton it extends from the hip joint to the knee joint. It is the longest single bone in the human skeleton.\n \nBone marrow = Many long bones, including the one above mentioned, have a cylindrical cavity at the center . This cavity is filled with very soft, butter like or pulpy matter. this matter is the bone marrow. \n\nRed blood cells are constantly formed in the bone marrow.