Medical & Health Encyclopedia

Within the framework of the axial skeleton lie all the most vital organs of the body. People have gone on living with loss of a hand or a leg- indeed, with loss of any or all of their limbs. But nobody can live without a brain, a heart, a liver, lungs, or kidneys- all of which are carried within the framework of axial skeleton. each part of the axial skeleton will be explained in the next post, which includes The Skull and The Backbone.