The hyoid is a small curved bone that does not attach to any other bone in the body and is connected to the tongue.
The hyoid bone.
No. The hyoid bone is classified as an irregular bone.
hyoid which is located in the throat above the larynx hyoid which is located in the throat above the larynx
The hyoid bone is right above the thyroid cart and below the epiglottis
yes the hyoid is an actual bone it is just not attached to any other bones
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.
5mg the hyoid is such a small bone
The hyoid is the only bone that forms no joint.
depresses hyoid bone and fixes hyoid bone during opening of mouth
I don't think you die when your hyoid bone is broken. I think that if you're dead, a broken hyoid is strongly indicative of strangelation. So, if you're dead and if you have a broken hyoid, you were probably strangled. The hyoid breaking just occurs, but I think that it's suffocation from lack of air that will kill you...not the hyoid bone itself.
The hyoid bone.
the Hyoid Bone
No. The hyoid bone is classified as an irregular bone.
The action of the omohyoid is to depress the hyoid. Its name derives from the Greek "omos" meaning shoulder, giving one of its attachments, and "hyoid", giving the other attachment - the hyoid bone. The function of the hyoid seems to be in voice variations. All mammals have them and there are arguments if primitive hominids used them as we do.
Ligaments that support the hyoid bone are attached to the styloid process.
The hyoid bone is at the level/in line with the third cervical (C3) vertebra.
hyoid which is located in the throat above the larynx hyoid which is located in the throat above the larynx