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Definition of Hyoid bone
1. Noun. A U-shaped bone at the base of the tongue that supports the tongue muscles.
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
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hyoid Bone
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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