Definition

Osteology is a branch of anatomy that studies the skeleton.

Overview

The discipline was named osteology by the Greek historian of the 1^st century Diodor Sitsiliyskiy and referred to the bones that remained after the burning of a human corpse.

From the 18th century, according to Heister’s proposal, osteology was designated as the anatomy field which provided a description of bones.

When the description data became insufficient, the meaning and study of osteology considerably extended and went deeper.

Nowadays, the following sections of osteology are distinguished:

• General osteology studies the bone tissues, including periosteum, bone marrow, articulate and epiphyseal cartilage; osteogenesis; skeleton development in the fetal and postfetal periods; and the appearance and merging of ossification points.


• Special or descriptive osteology focuses on separate bones or their complexes, e.g., wrists, skeleton of fingers, backbone, thorax, skull and so forth.


• Comparative osteology studies similarities and contrasts of skeleton of different species.


• Developmental osteology studies the development of all the bones of the human skeleton, from their earliest embryological form to final adult form.

Section Structure

• Morphology of the human skeleton


• Skeletal connective tissues


• The scope of arthrology


• Axial skeleton


• Appendicular skeleton

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