Muscles and Bones

Bones

Largest Bone

• Your Femur is the largest and strongest bone
• The Femur can hold up 6 tons of weight before breaking(12000 pounds)
• This is also known as your Thigh Bone
• Breaking your femur could be caused by car accidents or falling from a very high height

Smallest Bone

• The Stapes is the smallest bone
• Your Stapes is inside your ear
• Compared to a penny it is not even a quarter of the size
• The Stapes is 2-3 millimeters
• The Stapes is used to pass sound vibrations to the Cochlea then goes to your brain

Most fragile

• Your ankle is the most fragile
• It is commonly rolled/twisted or fractured
• If you break it/fracture it you can cause tendon damage which can hurt a lot
• Supprisingly it is more common than breaking a small pinky toe

The Hand

• There are 27 bones in your hand
• Your hand and foot bones combined are more than half of all the bones
• Your fingers are one of the most densest areas with nerve endings
• 34 muscles

The Foot

• There are 26 bones
• A quarter of your bones are in your feet!
• There are 33 joints, and 100 muscles

Bone Cancer

Osteosarcoma

• Osteosarcoma starts in legs, the Pelvis, arms or bone cells
• Mostly found in males from 10-30
• Most common bone cancer

Chondrosarcoma

• This starts under 20 and as you get older you can develop it more
• It is the second most common

Chordoma

• Found in people 30 years old and older
• Affects the spine bone and base of skull

Muscles

Smallest muscle

• Stapedius is the smallest muscle
• The Stapedius is in your ear
• Is used to stabilize the Stapes(smallest bone)
• Just over one milimeter

Strongest Muscle

• Your tongue is the strongest muscle
• It is10 cm long
• 2000-10000 taste buds at average
• You can't see your taste buds with the naked eye
• The little bumps are called Papillae

Collagen

• Bones are made of Collagen
• This is protein to make framework on your bone

Calcium Phosphate

When they mix they make the bones flexible.

Summary

Sources

• ivyroses.com
• quora.com
• bendbulletin.com
• blog.degreed.com

Sources 2

• cancercenter.com
• sharecare.com
• webmd.com
• www.google.com

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