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, or periotic, portion of the skull and the hyoid arch.
  • noun anatomy A muscle of this kind.

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