What is the total number of muscles in the normal human body?
There are more than 630 muscles in the human body. There is no universally agreed upon list, so no one can truthfully give you an exact “correct answer.” For instance, anatomists may debate about whether some “parts” of the body are one muscle or two distinct muscles. Each muscle belongs to one of three categories: skeletal muscles which move bones, smooth muscles which control involuntary movements such as breathing and digestion or cardiac muscle which is found in the heart. In medical school we memorized most of them…
