Irregular bone
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The '''irregular bones''' are bones which, from their peculiar form, cannot be grouped as [[long bone]], [[short bone]], [[flat bone]] or [[sesamoid bone]]. Irregular bones serve some various purposes in the body, such as: protection of nervous tissue (such as the [[vertebrae]] protect the [[spinal cord]]), affording multiple anchor points for [[skeletal muscle]] attachment (as with the [[sacrum]]), and maintaining [[pharynx]] and [[Vertebrate trachea|trachea]] support, and [[tongue]] attachment (such as the [[hyoid]] bone). They consist of [[cancellous tissue]] enclosed within a thin layer of [[compact bone]].
The irregular bones are: the [[vertebræ]], [[sacrum]], [[coccyx]], [[temporal bone|temporal]], [[sphenoid]], [[ethmoid]], [[zygomatic bone|zygomatic]], [[maxilla]], [[mandible]], [[palatine bone|palatine]], [[inferior nasal concha]], and [[hyoid]].
==References==
*[http://216.251.232.159/semdweb/internetsomd/ASP/1496564.asp Stedman's Online Medical Dictionary, 27th Edition]
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