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!by John R

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The ankle bone’s connected to the leg bone, the leg

bone’s connected to the thigh bone… and this

Tidbits connects you to some bony trivia!

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he average adult human’s body contains 206

bones. But w

hen that human being first entered the

world, he or she m

ay have had 270 bones or more.

Why? A

n infant’s skull and face is constructed ofm

any small bones hinged together by flexible suture

joints. (This m

akes it possible for the baby’s hugehead to pass through the birth canal.) A

s the childgrow

s older, those smaller bones fuse together to

become one larger, solid skull.

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he slang term “saw

bones” refers specifically toa surgeon, not just any ol’ doctor. T

he first recordeduse of the w

ord dates back to 1837. And, yes, the

name cam

e about due to the then-traditional “cure-all” of am

putation.

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