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    The document describes the different types, shapes, elevations, features, and components of bones in the axial skeleton. It lists two types of bones as trabecular and compact and eight classifications of bone shapes including long, short, flat, irregular, and sesamoid bones. It also outlines various bone elevations and features like ridges, crests, and tubercles. Finally, it provides details on the axial skeleton, which contains 80 bones including the skull, vertebral column, and thoracic cage.

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    The document describes the different types, shapes, elevations, features, and components of bones in the axial skeleton. It lists two types of bones as trabecular and compact and eight classifications of bone shapes including long, short, flat, irregular, and sesamoid bones. It also outlines various bone elevations and features like ridges, crests, and tubercles. Finally, it provides details on the axial skeleton, which contains 80 bones including the skull, vertebral column, and thoracic cage.

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    The document describes the different types, shapes, elevations, features, and components of bones in the axial skeleton. It lists two types of bones as trabecular and compact and eight classifications of bone shapes including long, short, flat, irregular, and sesamoid bones. It also outlines various bone elevations and features like ridges, crests, and tubercles. Finally, it provides details on the axial skeleton, which contains 80 bones including the skull, vertebral column, and thoracic cage.

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    The document describes the different types, shapes, elevations, features, and components of bones in the axial skeleton. It lists two types of bones as trabecular and compact and eight classifications of bone shapes including long, short, flat, irregular, and sesamoid bones. It also outlines various bone elevations and features like ridges, crests, and tubercles. Finally, it provides details on the axial skeleton, which contains 80 bones including the skull, vertebral column, and thoracic cage.

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    The axial skeleton:

    Types of bones:
    1. Trabecular
    2. Compact

    Classification by shape:
    1) Long bone
    2) Short bone
    3) Flat (squamous) bone
    4) Irregular bone
    5) Sesamoid bones
    6) Pneumatised bones
    7) Supernumerary (accessory)
    bones
    8) Heterotropic bone – eg)
    myositis ossificans

    Elevations:
    - Ridge
    - Crest
    - Tubercle
    - Tuberosity
    - Trochanter
    - Malleolus
    - Protuberance
    - Spine or spinous process

    Other features:
    - Articular facet
    - Head
    - Condyle
    - Epicondyle
    - Fossa
    - Sulcus
    - Notch
    - Foramen
    - Meatus

    Axial skeleton
    There are 80 bones, roughly 40% of
    the bones in the human body.
    The axial components include:
    - The skull (22 bones)
    - Bones associated with skull (6
    auditory ossicles & 1 hyoid
    bone)
    - Vertebral column (24 vertebrae,
    1 sacrum and 1 coccyx)
    - The thoracic cage (24 ribs, 1
    sternum)

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