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What is the free floating bone in the neck?
The Hyoid Bone.
What is the floating bone in the human neck?
It's the hyoid bone.
Which bones are not connected?
The hyoid is the only bone in the body that does not form a joint with any other bone so it is called a floating bone.The hyoid is the only bone in the body that does not form a joint with any other bone so it is called a floating bone.
Scientific name for floating bone in neck?
The scientific name for the floating bone in the neck is the hyoid bone. It is a U-shaped bone located in the anterior midline of the neck between the chin and the thyroid cartilage. The hyoid bone does not directly articulate with any other bones in the body, but it serves important functions in supporting the tongue and providing attachment for various muscles of the throat and neck.
What Bone is attached to neck and tongue muscle?
I believe you are talking about the hyoid bone. It's the only bone in the body not directly connected to another bone. It is instead attached to ligaments and muscles.
Can the hyoid bone be classified as a sesamoid bone?
No. The hyoid bone is classified as an irregular bone.
What is the weight of hyoid bone?
5mg the hyoid is such a small bone
What is the only bone in the body that doesn't form a joint with another bone?
The hyoid is the only bone that forms no joint.
What is the function of the omohyoid muscle?
depresses hyoid bone and fixes hyoid bone during opening of mouth
Small U-shaped bone in the neck?
The hyoid bone.
Only non articulating bone of the human body?
the Hyoid Bone
If the hyoid bone is not attached to another bone why is it so important?
yes the hyoid is an actual bone it is just not attached to any other bones
