• MacN'Cheezus
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    134 months ago

    Actually, the average human body contains more than one skeleton.

      • MacN'Cheezus
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        54 months ago

        It would have to be a lot considering that a baby has a full set of bones while a missing limb is generally only a few of them.

        • @evidences@lemmy.world
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          24 months ago

          Half the bones in a adult human are in the hands and feet. I don’t know if there’s enough missing limbs to offset fetus skeletons but I there’s a whole lot of bones missing in a double amputee.

          • MacN'Cheezus
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            24 months ago

            Babies have up to 270 bones at birth (instead of 206 in an adult), which makes up for at least one double amputee (hands have 27 bones and feet have 26 each).