 Hey everybody, Dr. O here. Welcome to the axial skeleton. So the axial skeleton is going to form the longitudinal axis of your body. So it's going to be 80 of our bones. We have 22 bones there with the skull. We have our eight cranial bones and 14 facial bones. You have the extra bones associated with the skull, which is going to be the hyoid bone. I'll show you that in a moment. And your six auditory ossicles are your ear bones, the malleus, incas and stapes. We have the vertebral column, which is going to be 24 vertebrae. We have seven cervical vertebrae, 12 thoracic vertebrae, and then five lumbar vertebrae, and they're in your low back, the sacrum and the coccyx. Then we have the thoracic cage, so we're going to have 24 ribs, 12 pairs, and the sternum. So that's going to be your axial skeleton. We'll cover this in a lot of detail. So here you see your head, your skull. We've got that. We have the cranial bones there are going to protect your brain and the facial bones they make up the face. So we will cover all of those in great detail. Here you see the vertebral column we just mentioned, the seven cervical vertebrae, 12 thoracic, five lumbar, and then the sacrum and the coccyx at the bottom. So we'll call that the tailbone. Here's the thoracic cage, your 24 ribs. We'll talk about true ribs, false ribs, all of that moving forward. And then we have the sternum there. Then we have your malleus, incas and stapes. We won't cover them very much here. We'll actually cover them when we talk about hearing. So this is probably the last you'll hear of them. And then we have the hyoid bone. What makes the hyoid bone famous is it's the only bone that doesn't have any joints. It's not connected to any other bones. It's actually held in place by muscles and other soft tissues. It's linked to the larynx and the pharynx and the tongue is above it. So it's kind of the base for the tongue. So it's important, but we don't talk about that very much. All right. So that's going to be the axial skeleton. Let's just go ahead and dive in with your skull. I hope this helps. Have a wonderful day. Be blessed.