Crossword clues for hyoid
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hyoid \Hy"oid\, a. [Gr. ? fr. the letter [Upsilon] + e'i^dos form: cf. F. hyo["i]de.]
Having the form of an arch, or of the Greek letter upsilon [[Upsilon]].
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(Anat.) Of or pertaining to the bony or cartilaginous arch which supports the tongue. Sometimes applied to the tongue itself.
Hyoid arch (Anat.), the arch of cartilaginous or bony segments, which connects the base of the tongue with either side of the skull.
Hyoid bone (Anat.), the bone in the base of the tongue, the middle part of the hyoid arch.
Hyoid \Hy"oid\, n. The hyoid bone.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1811, from French hyoïde (16c.), from Modern Latin hyoides, from Greek hyoeides "shaped like the letter U," from hu "letter U" (in later Greek called upsilon) + -oeides "like" (see -oid).
Wiktionary
a. Shaped like a U, or like the letter upsilon; specifically, designating a bone or group of bones supporting the tongue. n. The hyoid bone.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to the hyoid bone
n. a U-shaped bone at the base of the tongue that supports the tongue muscles [syn: hyoid bone, os hyoideum]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "hyoid".
The inferior parts of the cheeks were cicatrized with the lateral and superior regions of the neck, and with the base of the tongue and the hyoid bone.
The hyoid bone was splintered and the thyroid and tracheal cartilage crushed.
The coroner found bruising on the hyoid and the sternohyoid and the pharyngeal muscles.
In addition, she had been strangled by ligature, crushing her hyoid bone and causing extensive hemorrhaging into the throat muscles and soft tissue.
He snapped it open and had it against the man's throat in a matter of seconds, just above the cartilage of the laryngeal prominence and below the floating hyoid bone.
She clamped down on him and leaned in, stroking up and down, imagining cracking his hyoid bone and watching him choke to death on his own blood.
Alissa found what she was searching for, and with a flex of her fingers she felt his hyoid bone snap.
Krysty followed up with an equally devastating punch from her left fist, aimed a little higher, beneath the point of the chin, fracturing the hyoid bone and causing irreparable damage to the epiglottis.
The hyoid bone is malformed, and the thyroid prominence is absent.
But I noticed almost immediately that there was extensive damage to the laryngeal structures, especially the hyoid bone, which in both cases was fractured.
Face and neck congested and dark red, bruises on the arms and legs, contusions on the face, a fractured hyoid bone and torn thyroid cartilage.
Bingham was in the process of freeing the muscles from around the thyroid cartilage and the hyoid bone.
The remains were complete save for the hyoid, a tiny U-shaped bone suspended in the soft tissue of the throat, and several of the smaller hand and foot bones.
Kleist watched the bobbing of the man's hyoid bone, the thyroid cartilage of his larynx, the ligaments and tendons and soft fascia.