● The `color{violet}("bones")` of the `color{violet}("limbs")` along with their girdles constitute the `color{brown}("appendicular skeleton.")`

● Each `color{violet}("limb")` is made of `color{violet}("30 bones.")`

The `color{violet}(" bones")` of the `color{violet}("hand (fore limb)")` are :

● `color{brown}("Humerus,")`

● `color{brown}("Radius")`

● `color{brown}("Ulna,")`

● `color{brown}("Carpals")` (wrist bones – 8 in number),

● `color{brown}("Metacarpals")` (palm bones – 5 in number)

● `color{brown}("Phalanges")` (digits – 14 in number)

The `color{violet}("bones")` of the `color{violet}("legs (hind limb)")` are:

● `color{brown}("Femur")` (thigh bone – the `color{brown}("longest bone")`),

● `color{brown}("Tibia")`

● `color{brown}("Fibula,")`

● `color{brown}("Tarsals")` (ankle bones – 7 in number),

● `color{brown}("Metatarsals")` (5 in number)

● `color{brown}("Phalanges")` (digits – 14 in number).

● A `color{violet}("cup shaped bone")` called `color{brown}("patella")` cover the `color{violet}("knee ventrally")` (knee cap).

● `color{brown}("Pectoral")` and `color{brown}("Pelvic girdle bones")` help in the articulation of the upper and the lower limbs respectively with the `color{violet}("axial skeleton.")`

● Each `color{violet}("girdle")` is formed of `color{violet}("two halves.")`

● Each half of `color{violet}("pectoral girdle ")`consists of a `color{brown}("clavicle")` and a `color{brown}("scapula.")`

● `color{violet}("Scapula")` is a large triangular `color{violet}("flat bone")` situated in the `color{violet}("dorsal part")` of the `color{violet}("thorax")` between the second and the `color{violet}("seventh ribs.")`

● The `color{violet}("dorsal, flat, triangular body")` of `color{violet}("scapula")` has a slightly elevated ridge called the `color{brown}("spine")` which projects as a flat, expanded process called the `color{brown}("acromion.")`

● The `color{violet}("clavicle articulates")` with this.

● Below the acromion is a depression called the `color{brown}("glenoid cavity")` which articulates with the `color{violet}("head")` of the humerus to form the `color{violet}("shoulder joint.")`

● Each clavicle is a `color{violet}("long slender bone")` with two `color{violet}("curvatures.")`

● This `color{violet}("bone")` is commonly called the `color{brown}("collar bone.")`

● `color{violet}("Pelvic girdle")` consists of `color{brown}("two coxal bone.")`

● Each `color{violet}("coxal bone")` is formed by the fusion of three bones – `color{brown}("ilium, ischium and pubis.")`

● At the point of `color{violet}("fusion")` of the above `color{violet}("bones is a cavity")` called `color{brown}("acetabulum")` to which the thigh `color{violet}("bone articulates.")`

● The two halves of the `color{violet}("pelvic girdle")` meet ventrally to form the `color{brown}("pubic symphysis")` containing `color{violet}("fibrous cartilage.")`