Some Facts of Human Body.
- There are 206 bones in the Skeletal system of an adult. A new born baby has 300 bones, out of which 94 bones fuse together as it grows.
- Bones of hands and feet alone constitute 50% of the total bones in the human body.Bones account for about 1/5th of the body's total weight.
- A largest bone of human body is the femur in the thigh which constitutes about 27% of a person's structure. The averge length of this bone is about 50cm.
- The shortest bone in the human body is stapes or stirrup bone in the middle ear.
- Skull bones are also known as cranium. There are 8 bones forming the skull. One frontal (forehead),two parietals (side of the head),one occi[etal,two temporals, one sphenoid and one ethmoid.
- There are 27 small bones in a hand
- There are 26 bones in a foot.
- There are about 630 important muscles in the human body which normally accounts for 40% of the body weight.
- Water constitute about 70% of human body tissues
- The normal human body temperature about 37 C or 98 F.
- The normal body blood pressure is 120/80mm of HG.
- In a normal healthy adult contraction and relaxation mechanism of the ventricles results in a hear beat of about 70-72 per minute in males and 78-82 per minutes in females.
