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Let's take a look at the inside of a human skull.
There are 22 bones inside. If you count the inner ear and sublingual, you get 29.‌‌


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Skeleton, bones of the: The human body has 206 bones. These consist of 80 axial (head and trunk) bones and 126 appendicular (upper and lower extremity) bones.

Axial bones: The 80 axial bones comprise 29 bones in the head and 51 bones in the trunk.

Head bones: The 29 head bones consist of 8 cranial bones, 14 facial bones, the hyoid bone, and 6 auditory (ear) bones.

The 8 cranial bones are the frontal, 2 parietal, occipital, 2 temporal, sphenoid, and ethmoid bones.
The 14 facial bones are the maxilla, mandible, 2 zygoma, 2 lacrimal, 2 nasal, 2 turbinate, 2 vomer, and 2 palate bones.
The hyoid bone is a horseshoe-shaped bone at the base of the tongue.
The 6 auditory ossicles (little bones) are the malleus, incus, and stapes in each ear.
 

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