A muscle that attaches to the hyopid bone and to the tongue and is innervated by cranial nerve XII. [ FEED:rd ]
Synonyms: m. hyoglossus hyoglossus
Term information
- Wikipedia:Hyoglossus_muscle
- EMAPA:18277
- FMA:46691
- NCIT:C53161
- AAO:0010663
- MFMO:0000064
- SCTID:244785008
- UMLS:C0224196 (ncithesaurus:Hyoglossus_Muscle)
- MA:0002317
uberon_slim, human_reference_atlas
relationship loss: subclass hyobranchial muscles (AAO:0000224)[AAO]
Makes up part of the tongue in frogs and salamanders.[AAO]
The hyoglossus is a muscle that attaches to the hyoid and tongue and is innervated by Cranial Nerve XII.[FEED]
Term relations
- skeletal muscle organ and innervated_by some hypoglossal nerve and attached to some hyoid bone and attached to some tongue
- extrinsic muscle of tongue
- has muscle origin some hyoid bone
- has muscle insertion some tongue
- attached to some tongue
- attached to some hyoid bone