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Stapedius muscle
Muscle in the human ear / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The stapedius is the smallest skeletal muscle in the human body.[1] At just over one millimeter in length, its purpose is to stabilize the smallest bone in the body, the stapes or stirrup bone of the middle ear.
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Stapedius | |
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![]() The medial wall and part of the posterior and anterior walls of the right tympanic cavity, lateral view. | |
Bones and muscles in the tympanic cavity in the middle ear | |
Details | |
Origin | Walls of pyramidal eminence |
Insertion | Neck of stapes |
Artery | Stapedial branch of posterior auricular artery |
Nerve | Facial nerve (nerve to stapedius) |
Actions | Control the amplitude of sound waves to the inner ear |
Identifiers | |
Latin | musculus stapedius |
MeSH | D013198 |
TA98 | A15.3.02.062 |
TA2 | 2103 |
FMA | 49027 |
Anatomical terms of muscle |
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