The number of bones of a newborn baby:
- The number of bones in the body in an adult is 206 bones.
- But a newborn baby has 300 bones in his body.
- As the child grows, and the body increases in size, the bones heal with each other to reach the normal number of bones in an adult body.
- As the child progresses in growth and the body needs to increase in size, the body increases the length of the bones.
- Bones also grow through the growth of cells at the ends of the bones, called the epiphyseal lamina.
- These cells grow in the bone until they fuse with similar cells in another bone.
- Thus, growth continues in the bones of the body until a person reaches the age of 16 or 20 years.
- At this age, full physical growth and maturity is reached, and a person's height stops, as does the growth of his bones.
