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The axial skeleton is the part of the human skeleton that consists of bones of the head and trunk. It consists of 80 bones and is split into 8 different parts. Some are the skull bones, the ossicles of the middle ear, the hyoid bone, the rib cage, the sternum, and the vertebral column.

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