Definition of Hyoid bone

1. Noun. A U-shaped bone at the base of the tongue that supports the tongue muscles.

Exact synonyms: Hyoid, Os Hyoideum
Generic synonyms: Bone, Os

Definition of Hyoid bone

1. Noun. A bone in the human neck which supports the tongue. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Hyoid bone

1. A U-shaped bone lying between the mandible and the larynx, suspended from the styloid processes by slender stylohyoid ligaments. See: hyoid apparatus. Synonym: os hyoideum, lingual bone, tongue bone. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hyoid Bone

hyo-
hyobranchial cleft
hyoepiglottic
hyoepiglottic ligament
hyoepiglottidean
hyoganoidei
hyoglossal
hyoglossal membrane
hyoglossal muscle
hyoglossi
hyoglossus
hyoglossus muscle
hyoid
hyoid apparatus
hyoid arch
hyoid bone
hyoid bones
hyoidal
hyoidean
hyoids
hyomandibula
hyomandibular
hyomandibular cleft
hyomandibulas
hyomental
hyopastron
hyopharyngeus
hyoplastra
hyoplastron
hyoplastrons

Literary usage of Hyoid bone

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"It is also connected to the posterior surface of the body of the hyoid bone by an elastic ligamentous baud, the hyo-epiglottic ligament. ..."

2. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1895)
"I have thought it well worth while to present a recent case in which a combined fracture of the two principal vocal cartilages and of the hyoid bone ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1879)
"42, when both bellies of the omo-hyoid contract, its action is fui to be on the hyoid bone ; but no allusion is made to its chief function as л tensor of ..."

4. The Anatomy of the human skeleton by Henry Morris, John Ernest Frazer (1914)
"THE hyoid bone. A, MALE, B, FEMALE (Natural Size) Lesser cornu Body process, the vestige of a well-developed process in this situation in the hyoid bone of ..."

5. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Allen Thomson, George Dancer Thane (1882)
"The hyoid bone, or ox lingua, is situated at the base of the tongue, and may be felt between the chin and the thyroid cartilage. ..."

6. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1900)
"Post-mortem examination showed that the hyoid bone and the thyroid cartilage were fractured in addition to the lower .jaw, these injuries not having been ..."

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