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What about people who have had limbs amputated?
Do teeth count as part of the skeleton? If you've lost teeth do you only have 99% of a skeleton left?
According to this, bones don't start forming until the sixth or seventh week of gestation, so does the fetus technically not have a skeleton before then?
So many questions
I'd argue you still have one skeleton if you lose limbs or teeth.
Amount of skeletons is an integer representing the anount of bone structures holding and protecting human body (or whatever's left of it).
The real question is, how much of which parts of skeleton can we lose with it still being skeleton instead of a set of bones?
Skeleton of thesus?