The bone that is part of the axial skeleton is the skull. The
axial skeleton refers to the part of the skeleton that consists of the bones of
the head and the trunk of a vertebrate. In the human body, there are 80 bones
found in the axial skeleton composed of six parts: the skull bones, the
ossicles of the middle ear, the hyoid bone, the rib cage, sternum, and the
vertebral column.
