#bone notes

-- cranium = round, boxlike structure that protects the brain

-- made of eight bones      -- frontal      -- two parietal      -- two temporal      -- occipital      -- ethmoid      -- sphenoid

Axial Skeleton -- main trunk of the body -- includes      -- skull      -- spinal column      -- ribs      -- sternum

-- in the pectoral girdle region

-- part of the appendicular skeleton

-- long bone

-- functions      -- shape      -- support

-- articulating bones      -- scapula      -- humerus      -- sternum