What is Irregular bone?
The '''irregular bones''' are bones that from their peculiar form, cannot be grouped as [[long bone]], [[short bone]], [[flat bone]] or [[sesamoid bone]]. Irregular bones serve some special purpose in the body: (1) protection of nervous [[Tissue (biological)|tissue]] (such as the [[vertebra]]e protect the [[spinal cord]]), (2) affording multiple anchor points for [[skeletal muscle]] attachment (as with the [[sacrum]]), and maintaining [[pharynx]] and [[trachea]] support, and [[tongue]] attachment (such as the [[hyoid]] bone). The irregular bones are: the [[vertebra|vertebræ]], [[sacrum]], [[coccyx]], [[temporal bone|temporal]], [[sphenoid]], [[ethmoid]], [[zygomatic bone|zygomatic]], [[maxilla]], [[mandible]], [[palatine bone|palatine]], [[inferior nasal concha]], and [[hyoid]]. {{Biology-stub}} [[Category:Bones]]