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Bunnock (also known as the game of bones or simply bones) is a throwing game that is thought to have Russian origin. [1] The aim of Bunnock is to throw bones at an oppositions rows of bones, trying to do so in the fewest throws possible. The team that knocks down all of the oppositions bones first, wins.
The human skeleton of an adult usually consists of around 206 bones, depending on the counting of Sternum (which may alternatively be included as the manubrium, body of sternum, and the xiphoid process). [1] It is composed of 270 bones at the time of birth, [2] but later decreases to 206: 80 bones in the axial skeleton and 126 bones in the ...
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It is composed of around 270 bones at birth – this total decreases to around 206 bones by adulthood after some bones get fused together. [1] The bone mass in the skeleton makes up about 14% of the total body weight (ca. 10–11 kg for an average person) and reaches maximum mass between the ages of 25 and 30. [ 2 ]
This simple form of the game was generally only played by women and children, and was called penta litha or five-stones. There were several varieties of this game besides the usual toss and catch; one being called tropa, or hole-game, the object of which was to toss the bones into a hole in the earth. Another was the simple game of odd or even. [4]
Diagram of a typical long bone showing both compact (cortical) and cancellous (spongy) bone. Osteons on cross-section of a bone. In osteology, the osteon or haversian system (/ h ə ˈ v ɜːr. ʒ ən /; named for Clopton Havers) is the fundamental functional unit of much compact bone.
Anatomography was launched on Feb. 9, 2009 [1] by founder and chief director Kousaku Okubo , professor of the DNA Data Bank of Japan at the National Institute of Genetics. Human body polygon data used in the site are called "BodyParts3D". [3] BodyParts3D polygon data are extracted from full-body MRI images. The MRI image set that BodyParts3D is ...
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