Human Body

As you sit and type at the keyboard, while you swing on a swing, even when you pick up your lunch, you're using the bones in your finger...

Your heart, lungs, and liver are all very important, and luckily you've got ribs to keep them safe. Ribs act like a cage of bones around...

Your spine is one part of the skeleton that's easy to check out: Reach around to the center of your back and you'll feel its bumps u...

The axial skeleton consists of the 80 bones in the head and trunk of the human body. It is composed of five parts; the human skull, the oss...

There are many differences between the male and female human skeletons. Most prominent is the difference in the pelvis, owing to characteris...

Early in gestation, a fetus has a cartilaginous skeleton from which the long bones and most other bones gradually form throughout the remain...