Skeleton/Talk

The following is just not an encyclopedia article. I don't know what to call it, and I make no judgments otherwise of it, but an encyclopedia article it is not. --LMS

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No, no it's not what you think.

It's not about skeleton in the cupboard, it's not about the Reaper either.
It's about structure forming elements of your body - bones.
They appear as soon as fetus is shaped. They mature, grow, become harder, then they become thinner and they break, soon afterwards human being dies.
Bones are not a kind of stable tissue, on the contrary it is a very dynamic one.
It is undergoing constant process of absorption and formation.
Your body is made by the Almighty that way that it achieves the perfect balance. This of course applies to your bony structures as well. Unless you drink too much, you smoke too much or use steroid drugs ( or unknowingly drink lead contaminated tap water.)

So let's move on. Top down if you please.

• CRANIUM - SKULL - a bony structure encasing your most treasured possesion.
• MANDIBULE - just imagine how wonderful eating machine it is - best for you not to have temporo-mandibular joint pain.
• MALLEUS,INCUS,STAPES - three tiny bones in the middle ear that let you listen to your favourite mp3's grabbed from the Napster server.
• CLAVICLE
• STERNUM - compress the lower third of it as a part of ABC life support
• HUMERUS, ULNA, RADIUS - scaffold of your both arms
• THE BACKBONE - a masterpiece of the Divine in its own right
• THE PELVIS - shake it to make you look attractive to the opposite sex
• FEMUR, TIBIA, ULNA - "run Lola run"

All in all, 206 bony elements - that's quite a bag of bones.
You have not seen a body that fell down from a high-rise building or was run down by a Porsche at the full speed, have you ?
It's limp, it's flat. Now you know so don't try it.

Getting on for seventy means becoming shorter and shorter, by an inch or two. Your vertebrae fracture microscopically so your backbone is deformed. How ? Look at your child's posture and your grandma's. Osteoporosis - they call it. Look out for it. Eat more calcium, remember all the don'ts. Ah and one more thing don't do marathon running.

I invite everybody to expand on this little contribution.