Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to the hyoid bone.
- noun The hyoid bone.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the form of the Greek letter upsilon,
υ . - noun The tongue-bone or os linguæ); the hyoidean bone or collection of bones: so called from its shape in man.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The hyoid bone.
- adjective Having the form of an arch, or of the Greek letter upsilon [Υ].
- adjective (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the bony or cartilaginous arch which supports the tongue. Sometimes applied to the tongue itself.
- adjective (Anat.) the arch of cartilaginous or bony segments, which connects the base of the tongue with either side of the skull.
- adjective (Anat.) the bone in the base of the tongue, the middle part of the hyoid arch.
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- adjective Shaped like a
U , or like the letterupsilon ; specifically, designating abone or group of bones supporting thetongue . - noun The
hyoid bone .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to the hyoid bone
- noun a U-shaped bone at the base of the tongue that supports the tongue muscles
Etymologies
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Examples
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Under the lower jaw is a little horseshoe shaped bone called the hyoid bone, because it is shaped like the Greek letter upsilon (Υ).
A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell
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A small bone in the neck of the skeletal remains recovered in the Chandra Levy investigation had been broken, but a Smithsonian expert who examined the bone, known as the hyoid, testified Tuesday afternoon that it was impossible to say how the fracture occurred.
Levy's remains shown to jurors Washington Post editors 2010
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Finally, a tendon-like filament called the hyoid encompasses the woodpecker's skull and helps dissipate vibration, while also supporting the tongue and throat.
Week in Ideas Christopher Shea 2011
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One bone that's very strong and very difficult to find in remains is called the hyoid bone, which, if broken, would indicate strangulation.
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The first of these is called the hyoid arch (c.h.), and the four following this, the first (br. 1), second, third, and fourth
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The hyoid arch becomes attached, to the otic capsule, and its median ventral plate, including also the vestiges of the first, second, and fourth branchial arches, is called the hyoid apparatus.
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The labium was the equivalent of the hyoid, the labial palps and maxillipedes the equivalent of the "hyoid" elements which form the branchial arches.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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Hunt testified that the hyoid bone, found in the neck, had been broken.
Prison pen pal testified of Guandique's dead girl' letters Keith L. Alexander 2010
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Hunt testified that the hyoid bone, found in the neck, had been broken.
Prison pen pal testified of Guandique's dead girl' letters Keith L. Alexander 2010
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Hunt testified that the hyoid bone, found in the neck, had been broken.
Prison pen pal testified of Guandique's dead girl' letters Keith L. Alexander 2010
chained_bear commented on the word hyoid
"...yet this is no more a source of confusion for the seaman than the ruminant's multiplicity of stomachs for the anatomist, or the howler's anomalous hyoid."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Far Side of the World, 215
February 23, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word hyoid
"...These bones, which support the tongue, all have cut marks, apparently inflicted by humans who feasted on the mammoth tongues. But why only the hyoid bones?"
—Richard Stone, Mammoth: The Resurrection of an Ice Age Giant, (Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus Publishing, 2001), 7
September 20, 2008