hey everyone this is Ben with register nurse.com and in this video I'm going to show you how to learn the bones of your body you'll have to learn your bones in classes like anatomy and physiology biology and other health science classes and when you're born you have 270 bones but by the time you're an adult most of those bones will have fused together leaving you with only 206 bones okay so for this video I'm going to go over from head to toe all the major bones and what I would recommend is that you print out a diagram we'll try to have one on our website and also practice some quizzes online and just keep filling out that diagram over and over until you get these bones and I'll try to give you little ways to remember these as I go along and then I'll cover those and then in future videos I'll go through and we'll get a little more specific about some of these bones in your face and in your hand and so forth because each of those have their own little section their own little names but for this video we'll just give a quick overview and I have my good friend here skinny Bones Jones he's going to help me out he is so skinny he has to run around the shower just to get wet but he's a great guy to talk to and he has a really open mind so he's going to help us out so let's get started all right first up we have the skull and the top part of the skull here is called your cranium and the easy way to remember that is that your cranium sounds like brain Cranium brainium and that's how you can remember that there's also a board game called Cranium where you have to use your brain so that's how you remember that next you have your Jawbone this is called your mandible and the way to remember that is to say man I talk a lot or you can remember that masticate which is chewing you use your Mand to masticate so that's a way to remember that you also have three bones in your ears and those are called The Hammer Anvil and Stirrup that's a sort of slang term form them their official name is the incus malus and stapes so that's your ear bones we won't get into that in this video I'll touch on that when we talk about the cranial bones okay now let's keep moving forward okay next up we have right at the top right here this is called your clavicle bone and that your collar bone and the best way to remember that is just your clavicle collar it sounds the same both start with C so when you're going to pop your collar on your clavicle okay next you have your sternum that is the center bone right there on your chest that connects all your ribs and the way to remember that's your sternum is that it's shaped exactly like a neck tie so the neck tie area or the neck tie looking bone is the center of your chest the sternum so Center sternum neck tie looking bone is a way to remember that your sternum is divided into three sections by the way the top part's called the manubrium the center part's called the body and then this little tips called the zyo process and so you usually don't have to know all three parts for just a basic bone overview but that's the sternum next you have your ribs of course and we all know what the ribs are so we won't go into that for this video now let's turn our little volunteer skinny Bones Jones around here these two bones on the back these are called the scapula those are your little shoulder blade bones and the way to remember that is that scap kind of sounds like back so scapula back scap back that's how you remember those you also have coming down from your skull here your vertebrae and your vertebrae is broken into three major sections at the very top these bones up here these are called your cervical vertebrae then in the middle you have your thoracic vertebrae and just remember your chest area is called your thorax so that's the thoracic vertebrae area and then in the very lower part you have your lumbar vertebrae and the way to remember that is if you ever see an advertisement for like a couch or a chair or something it'll say has excellent lumbar support well that's because that area in your spine kind of Curves out and you need something there to kind of cushion and support that so that's the lumbar area of your vertebrae then at the very bottom down here you have your sacrum and the way to remember this bottom area is that the sacrum is kind of a sacred area because it's your back side area and so that's where that's located and then at the very bottom you have your coxic bone and that is your tailbone down there so the very last bone down there is your coxic bone then you have your sacrum and then your lumbar part of your vertebrae thoracic and then at the very top your cervical right where the cicle is located okay now let's talk about these arm bones the very top of your bone of your arm is your humorous that's this really long um sort of skinny bone and the way to remember that is that if you ever hit this bone and I have it is anything but funny anything but humorous so that's your humorous bone It's Kind of a Funny named bone then for these two bones on your arm at the lower part of your arm you have here your radius that's the top bone and I'll show you on mine your radius bone and your Ona and the way you can remember between those two is that your Ona when you hold your thumb up in the air like this your Ona is under so Ona under and then the top the radius and the radius when you throw a ball for example it kind of makes a radius so that's how you can remember that that's that part of your arm all right now we have the hand bones and in your hand bones you have a lot of different bones we'll go over those in a different video but these this collection of small bones right in this area right at the bottom right here those are called your carpal and the way you can remember that is that you use your caral to drive a car so your carpal are for driving a car next you have the skinny bones coming out from those and those are your ma carpal and that prefix MAA just means to extend out from or to come out from so you have your carpal and your Madea carpal and then for the fingers you have those are all called your fanges so your fingers fingers and fanges sound the same that's how you can remember those okay next we have the pelvis bone and the pelvic girdle and the way you could remember that this is your pelvis is that it's just simply your hipbone and Elvis Presley used to shake his hips pelvis and elbow sound the same so you say ain't no more H yeah and back in the day they would not even film Elvis Presley from the waist down because he would shake his hips and they thought that was provocative things have changed quite a bit since then as you can tell but uh this is your pelvis so just remember pelvis Elvis next this very top bone of your leg this is called your femur bone and it's a really long bone just like the top of your arm was that long humorous bone this is your Fe femur bone and the way you can remember the femur bone is when a female wears a dress it's probably going to cover most of her femur bone so that's how you can remember that okay now down here we have the patella bone that comes right out from the femur that's your little kneecap bone and then we have these two bones of the lower leg now the way that you can remember this this one right here is called the tibia and that is the really long bone and this little smaller one off to the side here is called your fibula so you have your tibia and your fibula and the way I would remember the difference between these bones is that you tell a little FIB that's what you'll do that's what people will do sometimes right they'll tell a little Fib so the fibia is smaller than the big tibia you because you tell a little FIB now for your foot bone here just like the hand bones these are called your tarel remember the hand bones were called your carpal and your made of carpal well these are called your tarsals and your made of tarsals and the way to remember this is your tarsel are located where your toes are so tarsel are where your toes are and again the tarsel part is these small collection of Bones and then the meta tarsals are the longer bones that come out and then your little toes here those are called your flanges just like your fingers are called your flanges so fingers and toes are flanges okay so that's how you can remember the bones of the body and that's just a brief overview and again we'll make some additional videos and talk about some of these individual bones and give you some facts about those so thank you so much for watching make sure to subscribe to this channel