Your tongue. :P
2007-11-29 23:55:58
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answer #1
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answered by skrdude8389 5
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To many it is debatable as each muscle has its unique strength in its given function. However, having said that according to Dr. Edmond,a Clinical Associate of the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pennsylvania, it is the external muscles that move the eye. They are the strongest muscle in the body and are a hundred times more powerful than they need to be. The eyes are composed of more than 2,000,000 parts.
2007-11-30 00:20:01
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answer #2
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answered by VelvetRose 7
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Depends what your means are for measuring the strongest.
The Masseter is the strongest muscle in the body relative to its size.The two muscles together have a biting force of almost 150 lbs. Enough to bite off a finger.
2007-11-30 00:06:18
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answer #3
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answered by Anonymous
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For me I would have to say my Mortis - Lock, but in truth the strongest muscle in the human body is the heart.
2007-11-30 00:19:51
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answered by Anonymous
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Your question has no conclusive answer
The 'strongest' human muscle
Since three factors affect muscular strength simultaneously and muscles never work individually, it is unrealistic to compare strength in individual muscles, and state that one is the "strongest". Accordingly, no one muscle can be named 'the strongest', but below are several muscles whose strength is noteworthy for different reasons.
In ordinary parlance, muscular "strength" usually refers to the ability to exert a force on an external object—for example, lifting a weight. By this definition, the masseter or jaw muscle is the strongest. The 1992 Guinness Book of Records records the achievement of a bite strength of 4337 N (975 lbf) for 2 seconds. What distinguishes the masseter is not anything special about the muscle itself, but its advantage in working against a much shorter lever arm than other muscles.
If "strength" refers to the force exerted by the muscle itself, e.g., on the place where it inserts into a bone, then the strongest muscles are those with the largest cross-sectional area. This is because the tension exerted by an individual skeletal muscle fiber does not vary much. Each fiber can exert a force on the order of 0.3 micronewton. By this definition, the strongest muscle of the body is usually said to be the quadriceps femoris or the gluteus maximus.
A shorter muscle will be stronger "pound for pound" (i.e., by weight) than a longer muscle. The myometrial layer of the uterus may be the strongest muscle by weight in the human body. At the time when an infant is delivered, the entire human uterus weighs about 1.1 kg (40 oz). During childbirth, the uterus exerts 100 to 400 N (25 to 100 lbf) of downward force with each contraction.
The external muscles of the eye are conspicuously large and strong in relation to the small size and weight of the eyeball. It is frequently said that they are "the strongest muscles for the job they have to do" and are sometimes claimed to be "100 times stronger than they need to be." However, eye movements (particularly saccades used on facial scanning and reading) do require high speed movements, and eye muscles are 'exercised' nightly during Rapid eye movement.
The unexplained statement that "the tongue is the strongest muscle in the body" appears frequently in lists of surprising facts, but it is difficult to find any definition of "strength" that would make this statement true. Note that the tongue consists of sixteen muscles, not one. One plausible explanation for this statement is that it originally referred to "tongue" as a metonymy for language, much like "The pen is mightier than the sword."
The heart has a claim to being the muscle that performs the largest quantity of physical work in the course of a lifetime. Estimates of the power output of the human heart range from 1 to 5 watts. This is much less than the maximum power output of other muscles; for example, the quadriceps can produce over 100 watts, but only for a few minutes. The heart does its work continuously over an entire lifetime without pause, and thus does "outwork" other muscles. An output of one watt continuously for seventy years yields a total work output of two to three gigajoules.
2007-11-29 23:56:24
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answer #5
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answered by Fall Back 3
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well sweety masseter muscle is the most stongest muscle in the whole body for it this muscle was in the palm of ur hands u could crush an iron ball.
2007-11-30 01:59:35
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answer #6
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answered by cooool dude 2
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Jaw muscle
2007-11-29 23:56:36
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answered by Anonymous
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Buttocks
2007-11-30 00:44:27
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answered by Anonymous
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Jaw Muscle (Masticator muscle)
2007-11-29 23:56:38
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answer #9
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answered by Cheryl H 5
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My glutes are mine. Dont get to close when I clench em, the shockwave has been known to knock people down.
2007-11-30 00:15:14
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answered by Rick R , Super Duper Samurai 侍 7
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Gluteus maximus, butt muscle, the biggest, maybe the strongest too?
2007-11-29 23:57:30
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answer #11
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answered by pirate_princess 7
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