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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
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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 is smallest muscle in the human?
the stapedius muscle inside the ear
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.
What is the smallest strongest muscle in the body?
Your Tongue
What organ in the human body has the smallest bones?
The smallest bone in the human body is the stapes (or stirrup) in the ear.
What is the human body's slowest muscle?
whats the slowest muscle in the human body
What is the smallest part of a human body?
the human cell
What is the most smallest muscle?
The human body has about 650 muscles-we say "about" because there is some disagreement as to which muscles are separate and that results in different muscle totals. 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.
The three smallest bones in the human body are?
The malleus, the incus, and the stapes are the three smallest bones in the human body and they are all in the ear.
Which muscle is the busiest muscle in the human body?
the heart
