CEREBROSPINALECTOMY
The smallest muscle in your body lives inside your ear, and a split second before you speak it braces and turns your own voice down so you don't deafen yourself from the inside. Your body mutes you before you say a word. Some of us could use that upgrade elsewhere.
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EXPLAINED (ACCURACY-CHECKED)
The stapedius (smallest skeletal muscle) contracts as part of the acoustic/attenuation reflex, including around vocalization, dampening loud and self-generated sound to help protect the inner ear.
Established: stapedius is the smallest skeletal muscle; the stapedius/acoustic reflex attenuates loud and self-generated sound (activates around vocalization). Standard otology/neuroanatomy.
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