• MacN'Cheezus
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    510 months ago

    It would have to be a lot considering that a baby has a full set of bones while a missing limb is generally only a few of them.

    • @evidences
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      210 months ago

      Half the bones in a adult human are in the hands and feet. I don’t know if there’s enough missing limbs to offset fetus skeletons but I there’s a whole lot of bones missing in a double amputee.

      • MacN'Cheezus
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        210 months ago

        Babies have up to 270 bones at birth (instead of 206 in an adult), which makes up for at least one double amputee (hands have 27 bones and feet have 26 each).