• Question: What is the strongest muscle in the human body?

    Asked by caroline97 to Kat, Andrew, Katie, Sadaf on 21 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Andrew Swale

      Andrew Swale answered on 21 Jun 2013:

      There is a lot of debate about this

      In terms of force generation people say the gluteus maximus (this is the largest muscle in the body)

      However, if you are considering force per mass it would be a very thin muscle in the uterus which is heavily involved in pushing a baby out!

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