The Mail on Sunday

BODY

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BABIES are born with about 300 bones in their bodies – yet an adult has just 206. This is because a baby’s bones aren’t fully formed and are joined together with a tough but flexible tissue called cartilage, which helps protect the baby, and the mother, during birth. As a child grows, the cartilage hardens and turns to bone, fusing the parts together – a process known as ossificati­on.

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