Rahila Ahmed
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Posted 4 year ago

How many bones are there in an adult backbone?

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Shweta Jain
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Posted 4 year ago Shweta Jain Gurushala Teacher Coach

The average person is born with 33 individual bones (the vertebrae) that interact and connect with each other through flexible joints called facets. By the time a person becomes an adult most have only 24 vertebrae because some vertebrae at the bottom end of the spine fuse together during normal growth and development.