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[โ€“] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

What about people who have had limbs amputated?

Do teeth count as part of the skeleton? If you've lost teeth do you only have 99% of a skeleton left?

According to this, bones don't start forming until the sixth or seventh week of gestation, so does the fetus technically not have a skeleton before then?

So many questions

[โ€“] Tavarin 1 points 1 year ago

so does the fetus technically not have a skeleton before then?

The cartilaginous pre-bones would still be a skeleton. Sharks have skeletons, but don't have any bones for example.

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