What is the hardest bone?

The femur is also the strongest bone in your body.
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What is the most hardest bone in the body?

2) Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

The thigh bone is called a femur and not only is it the strongest bone in the body, it is also the longest.
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What's the 2nd strongest bone in your body?

Which is strongest to weakest bone in human body in order
  • Femur: no doubt the strongest, because the strongest muscles deserve the strongest bone. ...
  • Tibia: because when you need to run away from a predator clavicle just don't cut it.
  • Humerus: easily dislocated but little less easy to break.
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Is the skull the hardest bone?

The human petrous bone in the skull protects the inner ear structures. Though it is one of the hardest, densest bones in the body, some portions (such as the area in orange, protecting the cochlea) are denser than others.
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Is there an unbreakable bone?

Unbreakable bones – the LRP5 gene

However, a different mutation in the LRP5 gene can also cause an uncommon disorder in which bone density is greatly increased making the bones very strong and resistant to fractures.
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What is the strongest bone in the human body?



What is your weakest bone?

The weakest and softest bone in the human is the clavicle or collar bone. Because it is a tiny bone which runs horizontally across your breastbone & collarbone, it is simple to shatter. Water makes up 31% of the weight of your bones. Your bones are four times more powerful than a concrete pound for pound.
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What bone protects the brain?

The skull protects the brain and forms the shape of the face. The spinal cord, a pathway for messages between the brain and the body, is protected by the backbone, or spinal column.
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Which is harder bone or ivory?

Ivory and bone

The main structural difference between the two is that ivory has no marrow or blood vessel system. It is essentially tooth material. It is usually whiter, harder, denser, and heavier than bone.
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How hard is it to break a femur?

The femur, the longest and strongest bone in the human body, is quite hard to break. Unless your bone has been weakened (most commonly the result of osteoporosis, medication side effects or cancer), it takes quite a lot of force to sustain a femur fracture.
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Which bones hurt most to break?

When it comes to the most painful bones to break, the following three are considered particular painful injuries to suffer in an accident:
  • Femur.
  • Tailbone.
  • Ribs.
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What is the most painful bone to break in body?

Your femur is located in your thigh, running from your hip to your knee. It's long and strong and hurts like heck when you break it. In addition to being one of the most painful breaks, a broken femur can damage the large arteries in the leg and cause severe bleeding.
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What is the rarest bone to break?

Fractures of the upper arm, or humerus, are the least common.
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What bones are babies not born with?

One example of a bone that babies are born without: the kneecap (or patella). The kneecap starts out as cartilage and starts significantly hardening into bone between the ages of 2 and 6 years old.
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What is a hole in the brain called?

The ventricular system is divided into four cavities called ventricles, which are connected by a series of holes, called foramen, and tubes.
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Is the skull a bone?

The bones that form the head. The skull is made up of cranial bones (bones that surround and protect the brain) and facial bones (bones that form the eye sockets, nose, cheeks, jaw, and other parts of the face). An opening at the base of the skull is where the spinal cord connects to the brain.
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How many ribs does a female have?

Men and women have the same number of ribs as each other. 12 pairs each.
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What are the 7 long bones?

Long bones are mostly located in the appendicular skeleton and include bones in the lower limbs (the tibia, fibula, femur, metatarsals, and phalanges) and bones in the upper limbs (the humerus, radius, ulna, metacarpals, and phalanges).
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What is the thickest human bone?

Your femur gives you a leg to stand on, literally. It's the biggest, strongest and one of the most important bones in your body.
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What is the strongest muscle?

The strongest muscle based on its weight is the masseter. With all muscles of the jaw working together it can close the teeth with a force as great as 55 pounds (25 kilograms) on the incisors or 200 pounds (90.7 kilograms) on the molars.
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Are teeth stronger than bones?

Your teeth are made up of about 96% mineral. Because they are almost entirely made up of solid mineral, this makes them stronger than your bones. This is also because there is no living tissue in your hard enamel layers. Your bones have living, soft tissues in them, which makes them a bit weaker than your teeth.
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What is the easiest bone to break in a fight?

Well, perhaps surprisingly, the most common bone to break is actually the clavicle, more often known as the collarbone. The clavicle is the bone that runs across the front of the body from shoulder to shoulder. Due to its length and slenderness, as well as its prominent position, it breaks quite easily.
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What are the 5 most commonly broken bones?

5 Most Frequently Broken Bones
  • Arm. Half of all the broken bones experienced by adults are in the arm. ...
  • Foot. It's not surprising that so many bone breaks occur in the foot, since about a quarter of all the bones in your body are found in your feet. ...
  • Ankle. ...
  • Collarbone. ...
  • Wrist.
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