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How does the number of muscles in the body compare to the number of bones in the body?

When you are first born, your body has 270 bones.  As you get older some of these bones fuse together so that by the time you reach adulthood your body has 206 bones in it.  It becomes fairly easy to learn many of the bones when you realize that your body is a mirror image of itself when it comes to the skeletal system.  For example, if you learn the bones of the right arm and hand, you also know the bones of the left arm and hand since each arm and hand contains the exact same bones.  Your head contains 29 bones, the arms contain 6 bones, the hands contain 54 bones, the legs contain 6 bones, the feet contain 52 bones, the vertebral column contains 24 bones, and the remaining 35 bones make up the rest of the skeleton.


In comparison, the muscular system contains roughly 640 muscles.  In the face alone there are about 30 muscles.  The muscles are divided into three groups: skeletal (works with bones to facilitate movement), smooth (found in hollow organs), and cardiac (found only in the heart).

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