It stays attached by muscles.
The hyoid bone is only held in place by muscles. Therefore it doesn't articulate with any other bone.
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
The bone beneath the tongue is called the hyoid bone. It is a U-shaped bone located in the neck that is not directly connected to any other bone in the body, but is held in place by muscles and ligaments.
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.
No, the hyoid bone is not classified as a sesamoid bone. Sesamoid bones are small, round bones found embedded within tendons, whereas the hyoid bone is a U-shaped bone located in the neck and serves as a point of attachment for muscles involved in swallowing and speech.
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.
the hyoid bone, also known as lingual bone, it is in the neck. it's supported by the muscles of the neck and supports the root of the tongue.
hyoid bone as well as other structures such as the mandible and the styloid process of the temporal bone. These ligaments help to suspend and stabilize the hyoid bone in the neck.