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Asked by fast1say on 10 Mar 2024.
Question: what would happen if i had no bones?
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Simone Girdham answered on 10 Mar 2024:
You can live missing some of your bones, for example, your small toe. And, many people are alive who were born missing some bones; or as a result of sickness/injury lost some bones.
But, your question is what would happen if I had no bones. My belief (and this not my area of expertise) is that you possibly would not have been born in the first place.
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Isabelle Secord answered on 19 Mar 2024:
If you had no bones – you would probably fall over and be very squishy! This is because your skeleton acts as a rigid structure for all your muscles and cells to climb onto! Your bones also protect your soft and delicate organs such as your brain, lungs, and heart from damage. But there are lots of examples of living organisms that do not have bones e.g plants! Plants still manage to stand upright and tall and they rely on their stems and trunks as structure. Also, some insects do not have a skeleton but a hard outer shell that is an exoskeleton!
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Amber Villegas - Williamson answered on 12 Apr 2024:
If we has no bones then our bodies would probably end up in a puddle and we’d be crushed under our own weight.
This is not my area of expertise and it’s yucky just thinking about it….ewwwww
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Kirsty Lindsay answered on 15 Apr 2024:
Let’s imagine you are an aspiring engineer and scientist, and the developed the bone-o-matic machine to heal fractured bones, but there is a terrible accident in the lab and you accidentally remove all of your bones by mistake! ( oh no!). there are a few things that would happen:
1. you would become very floppy and squishy, so you wouldn’t be able to stand or sit up, so you have a lay down on the floor
2. your muscles have nothing to pull against, so you can’t move your arms or legs, and your lungs get squished if you flopped in half trying to sit up. you might need a ventilator to help you breath by blowing air into your lungs.
3. if you had a emergency pool (just in case there was a horrible bone removal accident) in your lab, and you have a life vest on you could probably float around relativity happily with the water supporting you until the machine was fixed, a bit like a jellyfish.
4. you would not be able to tell which way up you are in the dark, because the little bones in your ears would not be there. You also wouldn’t be able to hear or talk . And lets not think about what happens to your eyes if there don’t have a socket to sit in…..Overall I’d say best not to remove all of your bones at once! That being said we can remove or replace some bones, with metal rods, or 3D printed plates or even whole joints if needed. but 1 at a time!
Comments
Paul commented on :
You would be very squishy! A very still (because you would not be able to move) very squishy mess..
dean1nap commented on :
Could I still go gym
yays1tag commented on :
You’d be flat
Edward commented on :
There is a film (rated PG) called the Island of Terror, starring Peter Cushing (he was Grand Moff Tarkin in the original Star Wars films) where there are some scientists looking for a cure for cancer. Somehow, they end up creating creatures that ‘drain’ the bones from people and cattle. Unsurprisingly they end up dead. They have to figure out how to stop these creatures before they take over the whole island.
Erin P commented on :
Can’t neglect the gains, bones or no bones!
Jo commented on :
If your bones suddenly disappeared you’d be like a lump of jelly with no structure. If you had quite strong muscles they might give you a bit of support, but they wouldn’t be attached to anything, so you’d still be quite squishy. Also we wouldn’t be able to recognise you because your face would be quite different without a skull to hold everything nicely in place. Moving about would be very hard as your muscles would have no bones to act on. Bones also produce hormones and the bone marrow (the spongy bit in the middle) even produces blood, so bones don’t just keep you in a “you shape” they do other useful things too.
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Some animals have evolved to exist without bones though. For examples sharks don’t have a bony skeleton but one made of cartilage (it’s the same stuff that your ear is made of).
Samantha commented on :
Aside from all the points raised about becoming squishy, not being able to move (or at least not in the same way as you do now), you’d lose the ability to make blood cells – another important function of bones. So you’d be in a real bad way!