Editing Skull (section)

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The human skull is generally considered to consist of 22 bones—eight cranial bones and fourteen facial skeleton bones. In the neurocranium these are the [[occipital bone]], two [[temporal bone]]s, two [[parietal bone]]s, the [[sphenoid bone|sphenoid]], [[ethmoid bone|ethmoid]] and [[frontal bone]]s.

The bones of the [[facial skeleton]] (14) are the [[vomer]], two [[inferior nasal concha]]e, two [[nasal bone]]s, two [[maxilla]], the mandible, two [[palatine bone]]s, two [[zygomatic bone]]s, and two [[lacrimal bone]]s. Some sources count a paired bone as one, or the maxilla as having two bones (as its parts); some sources include the [[hyoid bone]] or the three [[ossicles]] of the [[middle ear]], the malleus, incus, and stapes, but the overall general consensus of the number of bones in the human skull is the stated twenty-two.

Some of these bones—the occipital, parietal, frontal, in the neurocranium, and the nasal, lacrimal, and vomer, in the facial skeleton are [[flat bone]]s.