How To Use hyoid bone In A Sentence
- In the receding angle below the chin is the hyoid bone, and the finger can be carried along the bone to the tip of the greater cornu, which is on a level with the angle of the mandible: the greater cornu is most readily appreciated by making pressure on one side, when the cornu of the opposite side will be rendered prominent and can be felt distinctly beneath the skin. XII. Surface Anatomy and Surface Markings. 1. Surface Anatomy of the Head and Neck
- She also had asphyxia due to strangulation; the hyoid bone directly under the bruising was fractured.
- It may be long, terminating below the level of the thyroid cartilage, or short, terminating at the level of the hyoid bone.
- Objective To provide anatomical data for the clinical operation on neck to locate the acroteric vascular nerves of the tip of the greater horn of hyoid bone(THB) with taking THB as a landmark.
- Objective To provide anatomical data for the clinical operation on neck to locate the acroteric vascular nerves of the tip of the greater horn of hyoid bone(THB) with taking THB as a landmark.
- C th, the right cricothyroid muscle; Tr, the trachea; Hy, the body of the hyoid bone. The Common Frog
- 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
- The tongue is suspended from the inside of the mandible above the hyoid bone and has muscles with a range of different orientations.
- Gerrish, or some finely illustrated work on anatomy, but we must apply a searching hand and know to a certainty that the constrictors of neck, or other muscles or ligaments do not pull cervical and hyoid bones so close as to bruise pneumogastric or any other nerves or fibres that would cause spasmodic contraction of digastric, stylo-hyoid or the whole remaining group of neck muscles and ligaments, with which you are or should be very familiar. Philosophy of Osteopathy
- One bone that's very strong and very difficult to find in remains is called the hyoid bone, which, if broken, would indicate strangulation. CNN Transcript May 24, 2002
