Letter from the Editor: Musculoskeletal Facts
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D. Attached to the bones of the skeletal system are approximately 700 named muscles that make up about half of a person׳s body weight.3 The exact number is difficult to define because different sources group muscles differently, for example regarding what is defined as different parts of a single muscle or as several muscles. Examples range from 640-850, so if you chose option C (600) you were also in the ballpark. Each of these muscles is considered as an organ made of skeletal muscle tissue,
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