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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.

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