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The human skeleton has 204–214 individual bones; it weighs about 10 kg and accounts for about 15% of the body weight. A rough breakdown differentiates the skeleton of the trunk (trunk or axial skeleton) from the skeleton of the extremities (peripheral skeleton). The skeleton includes the following bones:
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Bartl, R., Bartl, C. (2019). Structure and Architecture of Bone. In: The Osteoporosis Manual. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00731-7_2
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