Human body is not just a organism it's a miracle. When we study our body in depth we will know how big this miracle is!! Our body is composed of tissue, muscles, blood cells, organs, enzymes, hormones and so on. We have long, small, strong organs in our body. In this article we have an interesting facts about the tiny bone called as “Stapes”.

The smallest or tiny bone in the human body is stapes, also called as Malleus incus, which is located in the middle ear.

It resemble the shape of the stirrup. The size of the stapes is just 3mm long.This bone is one of the three bones found in the central part of the ear and collectively called ossicles.

The function of the ossicles is to transmit pressure waves from the external ear to the internal ear. Definite shape of our human body is due to the presence of skeletal system. Other functions it includes enabling movement, producing blood cells, storing essential minerals and protecting important organs. When a person is born, they have a total of 240 bones, which decreases to 206 by the time when they reach adulthood. There are two types of bones in the human body. One is hard bone known as cortical bones ( known as structure bone). Other is soft bone. Soft bone situated between large bone, inside the pelvis, ribs and skull.

Stapes bone means What??

The stapes is considered to be the smallest bone in the human body, along with Malleus and incus. The stapes is often compared to a tuning fork like structure. The Malleus is compared to the shape of the hammer. The incus is compared to the anvil shape structured.

Sound waves firstly enter the ear canal, pass through the ear drum and finally reach the middle ear. This is where the sound waves cause vibrations. The bones involved in vibrations are collectively called ossicles and composed of stapes, Malleus and incus. From here, this sound wave is finally recognised by the brain. The stapes have two divisions namely inferior and superior crus, which helps in transmitting vibrations to the flat base of the bone. These vibrations are then transmitted to the inner ear and incorporated into neural data for transmission to the brain via the cochlear and auditory nerves.

Stapes plays a important or vital role in hearing. If it damaged it will cause partial or complete hearing loss.