HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Here's a song for you to memorize the bones in 3 minutes!<br /><br />The skeleton has 2-0-6 bones in an adult,<br />Babies have 2-70, which fuse for this result.<br />The skeleton is divided into two main zones,<br />Which are called the axial and appendicular bones.<br /> <br />The axial skeleton is topped by the skull,<br />Your brain is in the cranium, which acts as a hull.<br />The mandible or jawbone is able to expand,<br />Which is useful for talking, as you can understand.<br /> <br />The ossicles are small bones, found inside your ear,<br />The maleus, incus, stapes, which all help you hear.<br />Sound waves are amplified by these three bones,<br />And then move to the cochlea, which discerns the tones!<br /><br />The rib cage helps to protect the lungs and the heart,<br />With 12 ribs on each side, the sternum in the front.<br />Your vertebral column, made up of vertebrae,<br />Are stacked up very neatly, in a vertical array.<br /> <br />The cervical vertebrae make up your neck,<br />The spinal chord keeps your reflexes on deck!<br />The ribs are supported by thoracic vertebrae, <br />Lumbar ones are at the end of the spinal cord pathway!<br /> <br />Five sacral vertebrae are fused to form your sacrum,<br />Which holds your upper body, and is found in your bum.<br />Below it is the coccyx, or the tailbone,<br />In humans the coccyx has not really grown.<br /> <br />The appendicular skeleton - a 126 bones,<br />In shoulders, arms, and legs, as we have here shown,<br />Your scapula, also known, as your shoulder blade,<br />Next to the clavicle, or collarbone, is laid.<br /> <br />You have three arm bones, one above and two below,<br />Here they come together, to meet at the elbow.<br />The bones of the forearm are the ulna and the radius,<br />The humerus in the upper arm, so don’t you forget this.<br /> <br />You have 54 bones in one hand and one wrist,<br />Of carpals, metacarpals, and phalanges these consist.<br />The proximal, intermediate, and distal phalanges,<br />Make up your fingers, which you can move with ease.<br /> <br />Remember that your hands are where you find the carpals,<br />And the feet are where you will find all your tarsals.<br />The hip bone can be divided into three,<br />The ilium, ischium, and pubis, as you can see!<br /> <br />The bones in your leg? Well, there are four,<br />The patella is your kneecap, and then there are three more,<br />The tibia and fibula are found below the knee,<br />And the femur’s found above it, as we can all agree!<br /> <br />There are 52 bones, in your ankles and your feet,<br />Once you know the hand bones, these will be a treat!<br />There are the tarsals, metatarsals, and phalanges,<br />Remember that they are proximal, intermediate, and distal!<br /><br />Music/Lyrics/Visual © Neural Academy
