Showing posts with label Stapedius. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stapedius. 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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