Excerpt from A Manual of Anatomy The skeleton is a framework of bone and cartilage that serves for the attachment of the muscles. The axial portion comprises the head and trunk and is comparatively rigid or fixed, while the appen dicular portions, the appendages, are extremely mobile; the homes of the extremities represent a system of levers actuated by the muscles and acting upon the joints, which constitute the fulcra. The human skeleton is an endoskeleton which is more or less completely invested by the muscles and ...
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Excerpt from A Manual of Anatomy The skeleton is a framework of bone and cartilage that serves for the attachment of the muscles. The axial portion comprises the head and trunk and is comparatively rigid or fixed, while the appen dicular portions, the appendages, are extremely mobile; the homes of the extremities represent a system of levers actuated by the muscles and acting upon the joints, which constitute the fulcra. The human skeleton is an endoskeleton which is more or less completely invested by the muscles and completely covered by the skin. The adult skeleton comprises 206 individual bones arranged as follows. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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