Showing posts with label Smallest muscle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Smallest muscle. Show all posts
Friday, June 8, 2012
The tiniest muscle, Stapedius, protects hearing!
In one of my earlier blog posts I had intimated about the smallest bone in our body. Now we shall see here which one is the smallest skeletal muscle. There are two of it, one in each of our two middle ears. It is the Stapedius muscle. Its length is 1.27 mm only!
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