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CROSS-SPECIES ANATOMY - ANNOTATIONS

The Basic subset of the UBERON integrated, cross-species anatomy ontology is downloaded weekly from http://berkeleybop.org/ontologies/uberon/basic.obo. For more information about this ontology see the "About" page on the UBERON website at http://uberon.github.io/about.html.

Term:hyoid bone
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Definition:A horseshoe shaped bone situated in the anterior midline of the neck between the chin and the thyroid cartilage. The hyoid bone provides attachment to the muscles of the floor of the mouth and the tongue above, the larynx below, and the epiglottis and pharynx behind. [WP,modified].
Comment:[taxon-note] "The hyoid bone is derived from the lower half of the second gill arch in fish, which separates the first gill slit from the spiracle. In many animals, it also incorporates elements of other gill arches, and has a correspondingly greater number of cornua. Amphibians and reptiles may have many cornua, while mammals (including humans) have two pairs, and birds only one. In birds, and some reptiles, the body of the hyoid is greatly extended forward, creating a solid bony support for the tongue. The howler monkey Alouatta has a pneumatized hyoid bone, one of the few cases of postcranial pneumatization of bones outside Saurischia." xsd:string {source="WP", seeAlso="https://github.com/obophenotype/uberon/issues/548"}
Synonyms:related_synonym: hyoid;   hyoideum;   lingual bone;   os hyoideum
 xref: AAO:0000684;   EMAPA:18650;   FMA:52749;   GAID:197;   MA:0001484;   MESH:D006928;   NCI:C32752;   SCTID:263352000;   UMLS:C0020417;   VHOG:0001325;   Wikipedia:Hyoid_bone
 external_ontology: present_in_taxon NCBITaxon:9606
 axiom_lost: relationship loss: part_of hyoid plate (AAO:0000664)[AAO]" xsd:string {date_retrieved="2012-06-20", external_class="AAO:0000684", ontology="AAO



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  UBERON ontology 0
    anatomical entity 0
      material anatomical entity 0
        anatomical structure 0
          anatomical system 0
            organ system subdivision 0
              subdivision of skeletal system 0
                hyoid apparatus 0
                  hyoid bone 0
                    zone of hyoid bone + 0
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    anatomical entity 0
      material anatomical entity 0
        anatomical structure 0
          multicellular anatomical structure 0
            multicellular organism 0
              embryo 0
                embryonic structure 0
                  presumptive structure 0
                    presumptive gut 0
                      digestive tract 0
                        subdivision of digestive tract 0
                          foregut 0
                            pharyngeal region of foregut 0
                              pharyngeal arch system 0
                                pharyngeal arch 0
                                  splanchnocranium 0
                                    hyoid arch skeleton 0
                                      hyoid apparatus 0
                                        hyoid bone 0
                                          zone of hyoid bone + 0
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