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well there are lots of muscels in the human head but im not sure how many for certain as i am only 12 years of age please could you write to me if you no or could find out the answer thanks CHARLIE

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well there are lots of muscels in the human head but im not sure how many for certain as i am only 12 years of age please could you write to me if you no or could find out the answer thanks CHARLIE

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13y ago

Actually... the jury's still out on this one. It's a saying that has been around for so long and penetrated our culture to the extent that everyone assumes it's true without remembering specific details or sources. You will find many seemingly reputable sources swearing that it's true, but interestingly enough they report widely different figures for the number of muscles. Some of the more popular ones are 43 muscles in a frown vs. 17 muscles in a smile and 62 muscles in a frown vs. 26 muscles in a smile (nice symmetry... too nice if you ask me!). So we definitely know what majority opinion is on the subject, but they don't seem to have anything to back it up!

Things are further complicated by the fact that those crazy researchers who are actually puzzling over this can't agree on certain fundamental things: do they count muscles with a major involvement, do they count every teeny-tiny muscle that twitches even if it doesn't play a large role, do they count eye muscles because some people's eyes crinkle up a bit when they smile, etc., etc.? Frowning could involve more muscles, but smiling could still require more effort if those fewer muscles need to be flexed more. Nobody knows for sure, but everybody has ideas.

A few facts that may or may not also be relevant to answering the question: studies show that people are more apt to smile when they see other people smiling and frown when they see other people frowning, some believe that smiling just seems easier because we do it more and the muscles are thus better conditioned for it, and the sort of smile that we label "insincere" requires significantly less muscular effort than a sincere and spontaneous grin.

I vote for smiling, regardless of how many muscles are involved! :)

Answer:There are 43 muscles in the face (on average) which is mostly controlled by the seventh cranial nerve (also known as the facial nerve). But for different people there are different number of muscles.
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14y ago

their a 4 muscles in the neck

  • Cervical

  • Suprahyoid

  • Infrahyoid/Strap

  • Vertebral

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14y ago

There's about 52, not including any individual distinctions regarding things like posterior and inferior, longitudinal and transversus, and major and minor.

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Over 40

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