A horseshoe shaped bone situated in the anterior midline of the neck between the chin and the thyroid cartilage. The hyoid bone provides attachment to the muscles of the floor of the mouth and the tongue above, the larynx below, and the epiglottis and pharynx behind. [WP,modified]. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyoid_bone ]
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- AAO:0000684
- FMA:52749
- VHOG:0001325
- GAID:197
- Wikipedia:Hyoid_bone
- EMAPA:18650
- SCTID:263352000
- MA:0001484
- MESH:D006928
- NCIT:C32752
Subsets
uberon_slim, pheno_slim, human_reference_atlas
Term relations
Subclass of:
- irregular bone
- has developmental contribution from some pharyngeal arch 2
- part of some hyoid apparatus
- has developmental contribution from some pharyngeal arch 3
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