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they are made of cartilage.

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What are two parts of your body that are made of cartilage that did not turn out to be a bone?

ears and nose


Why aren't the ears or the nose on the skull?

Because the skull is made of bone/calcium while the ears and nose are made of cartilage. It takes longer for bones to degrade and turn into dust. With the nose and ears, there are no bones involved so degradation occurs in a more rapid timeline.


Neither a cranial nor a facial bone?

Cartilage is considered to be a hard structure in the head that is neither cranial nor a facial bone. The nose and ears are made of cartilage.


What is the single most outstanding physical difference between bone and cartilage?

The hardness. Bone is stiff and inflexible and cartilage is flexible. Your ears and tip of your nose are made of cartilage.


What is the skinniest bone in the body called?

the bone present in our ears and at the front part of our nose,,,,,,,,is the most skinnest 1


What is the smallest bone in your body and where is it?

It is in the inner ears.


What parts of your body are made of cartilage-?

Yes. The skeleton is made primarily of bone and cartilage.


What is the fraction of the cartilage?

Cartilage is the soft bone in i.e. your ears and nose. A break in this bone is a fraction.


What is the name of the bone that makes most of the temple region superior and anterior to the ears?

Spheniod Bone


Softer version of the hard bone found in nose and ears?

the softer version of the hard bone found in the nose and ears is call cartilege, but this soft bone can also be found in the nose


What is the cpt code for pure tone audimentry conduction bone only?

There is no specific CPT code for "Pure tone audiometry (threshold); bone only". You can use the code 92553 (Pure tone audiometry (threshold); air and bone) with modifier 52.


What is the ossicals?

The smallest bone in the human body, they are a part of your ears.