How many bones in the axial skeleton?

80 bones; Skull, mandible, hyoid, verberal column and thoracic cage.

How many bones and groups in verberal column?

1. cervical vertebrae (7 bones, connect to the skull) 2. thoracis vertebrae (12 bones, tend to be a bit bigger, connect to the ribs) 3. Lumbar vertebrae (5 bones) 4. sacrum (5 fused vertebrae, in adults 1 bone) 5. coccyx (4 fused vertebrae, 1 bone)

How many bones in the thoracic cage?

24 ribs, and the sternum. To protect the organs