The strongest muscles in our body and why?
Muscle is a soft tissue in the body, muscles come in all shapes and sizes.
Their jobs are to exert force to move objects, whether that’s lifting a
weight, moving a limb, pumping blood, or batting an eyelid. Muscles are given
Latin names according to location, relative size, shape, action, origin insertion, or several origins. But which muscle is the strongest? The strongest muscle in the body is the masseter (used for chewing).
The masseter (also masseter muscle, Latin: musculus masseter) is a masticatory muscle that elevates the lower jaw and originates from the zygomatic arch, and inserts into the masseteric tuberosity of the mandible. The masseter muscle is thick and quadrangular in shape.
The masseter is divided into two distinct sections, the ‘superficial’ and
‘deep’ portions. The superficial portion of the masseter is the thick and tendon-like portion of the muscle that connects to the cheekbone, during chewing, the masseter is assisted by three other muscles: the temporalis,
medial pterygoid, and lateral pterygoid. The masseter is one of the four muscles of the masticatory apparatus.
