About how many skeletal muscles are in the average human body?
The average human body has about 600 different skeletal muscles. Some are major muscles, like the gluteus maximus and pectoralis major. Others are rather small, but not insignificant, like the coracobracialis and our teres minor.
There are other muscles in the human body that are essential to human life cardiac (heart) and smooth (various organs, like blood vessels, digestive, urinary, & reproductive sysyems), but this question is asking about only the average number of skeletal muscles.
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14 Comments
Joss Coverdale
ID'd 2 sources that say over 650, so the correct answer should be the last one
Christine Cameron-Dow
In the average human body there are 650. The closest approximation to a correct answer is 668. 600 is incorrect.
Claudia Heilke
Really annoying to have an OBVIOUSLY incorrect answer when ALL sources say AT LEAST 650.
Angpepper67
Answer is INCORRECT! Way over 600. I want my points!! Lol
Bob DeSuza
As with all the comments already made, there are over 650 named skeletal muscles in the body, with some sources stating there are more than 800. Your answer is incorrect.
Denise Jensen
There are anywhere from 650 to 840 skeletal muscles depending on the sources
Richard S. Levine
Incorrect answer! 320 prs. of muscles ON EACH SIDE = 640 muscles -Wikipedia.
I know other sources that claim up to 800+ muscles. 42 yrs in medicine, retired.
RWR is a new writer & needs verification of his questions. Very VAGUE category.
Donna R. O'Brien Moran
This is incorrect! Not fair. Not getting my points.
Bob Allen
Agree, some say up to 840, 650 are named so all answers are wrong.
Randy Jones
Answer is wrong
Jo Brown
I’d suggest that in this case you are incorrect. The human body has more than 650 skeletal muscles and possibly as many as 800 plus
Linda Armstrong
This answer is incorrect. WIKI has a range of 600 to as many as over 800.
Lee Miller
There are OVER 650 NAMED skeletal muscles in the human body. Your answer is not correct!
Andrea Hawkins
That answer is not correct. There are over 600 skeletal muscles in the body. Do they check the answers on these questions before they email them to us?