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What is the hardest bone in the human body?

  • 4 years ago
♥Belle♥ by ♥Belle♥
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Most of the ear is concealed within the head, and its essential sensory and metabolic structures are surrounded by the TEMPORAL or PETROUS bone, the hardest bone of the body; and the hardest bone to break.

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Physiological Acoustics, Neural Coding, and Psychoacoustics
by W Lawrence Gulick, Robert D Frisina, George A Gescheider - Medical - 1989 - 430 pages

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Handbook of Otoacoustic Emissions
by James W Hall - Medical - 1999 - 656 pages

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Physiology of the Ear
by Anthony F Jahn, Joseph Santos-Sacchi, Joseph Santo-Sacchi - Medical - 2001 - 700 pages
  • 4 years ago
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well you are all wrong cause if you research it you would know that your jawbone is the hardest bone in the human body.

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The chosen answer is wrong and you who think it's the jaw bone are also wrong. The femur is the hardest bone in the human body..sorry to burst your bubbles

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