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the stapedius muscle inside the ear
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What is the smallest muscle in your leg?
The plantaris is the smallest muscle in the human leg. It is used to flex the knee joint and is absent in about 7 percent of the human population.
Muscle that is attached to stapes?
The stapedius muscle is attached to the stapes. It is the smallest striated muscle in the human body.
What is the smallest muscle?
Individual cells could be considered smallest whole functional parts. However if you wish to be pedantic you could include the constituents of those cells all the way down to subatomic particles.
What is the smallest muscles in a body?
AnswerThough the stapedius is the smallest of all muscles in the body and is located in the middle ear, the styloglossus is the shortest and smallest of all the skeletal muscles.The tensor tympani is the shortest skeletal muscle in the human body. The stapedius is a skeletal muscle.
What are the muscle structures from largest to smallest?
The organization of a skeletal muscle from smallest to largest is as follows: myofilaments > myofibrils > muscle fiber > fascicle > muscle
Which muscle is the smallest?
pyriformis
What is the smallest muscle in the eye?
I think its's the scalene muscle
What is the smallest muscle in human body?
The Stapedius. Although the experts don't agree on how many muscles there are in the human body, they do agree that the smallest muscle is the stapedius. Located in the middle ear, the stapedius is a mere 1.27 millimetres long. And what does such a miniscule muscle do? It controls the tiniest bone in the body, the stapes or stirrup bone. The stapes and two other bones conduct sound vibrations through the middle ear. Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stapedius
What is the smallest strongest muscle in the body?
Your Tongue
What is The smallest portion of a muscle that can contract?
the sacromere
What is Smallest contractile units of a muscle?
Sarcomere
What is lateral excursion?
smallest to largest muscle
