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Do adults have more ribs than children?

Updated: 8/11/2023
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14y ago

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Oh gosh no. A child has much more cartilage because a fetus has no bone this is to fit through the birth canal. It takes a child many years for their cartilage to become bone. This is why children have less broken bones than adults. They have not fully converged from cartilage to bone

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