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Term:
Parent Terms Term With Siblings Child Terms
hyoid apparatus +    
irregular bone +    
anterior process of hyoid apparatus 
anterior radial 
ceratobranchial I 
ceratobranchials II--IV 
coccyx 
commissura terminales of hyoid apparatus 
fused sacrum +  
hyale +  
hyoid apparatus opening +  
hyoid bone +  
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].
hyoid plate +  
hypobranchial I 
hypobranchial II 
hypohyal bone 
inferior nasal concha +  
jugal bone +  
lacrimal bone 
os triangulare 
palatine bone +  
paraglossale 
parahyoid 
posterior radial 
stylohyoid bone 
thyrohyoid bone 
thyrohyoid cartilage 
tympanohyoid cartilage 
vertebra +  
vomer +  

Synonyms
Related Synonyms: hyoid ;   hyoideum ;   lingual bone ;   os hyoideum
Xrefs: AAO:0000684 ;   EMAPA:18650 ;   FMA:52749 ;   GAID:197 ;   MA:0001484 ;   MESH:D006928 ;   NCI:C32752 ;   SCTID:263352000 ;   UMLS:C0020417 ;   VHOG:0001325 ;   Wikipedia:Hyoid_bone
External Ontologys: 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
Definition Sources: Wikipedia:Hyoid_bone

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