Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the hyoid bone and a petrous part of the skull: noting a muscle of some batrachiaus.
- noun The petrohyoid muscle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.) Pertaining to petrous, oe periotic, portion of the skull and the hyoid arch.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective anatomy Pertaining to the
petrous , orperiotic , portion of theskull and thehyoid arch . - noun anatomy A
muscle of this kind.
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