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Skeletal system includes both:
=Axial skeleton
-Skull
-Auditory ossicles and hyoid bone
-Vertebral column
-Thoracic cage
=Appendicular skeleton
-Pectoral and pelvic girdles
-Upper and lower limbs
The skull
=Consists of the cranium and the bones of the face
-The cranium encloses cranial cavity
-Facial bones surround and protect the entrances to the respiratory and --digestive tracts
=Superficial landmarks include the sutures
-Lambdoid
-Coronal
-Sagittal
-Squamous