a U- shaped bone at the base of the tongue that supports the tongue muscles

Of or pertaining to the bony or cartilaginous arch which supports the tongue. Sometimes applied to the tongue itself.

The hyoid bone.

Having the form of an arch, or of the Greek letter upsilon [].

Y- shaped or U- shaped, noting the tongue bone, os hyoideum.

A term denoting a bone of the tongue.

Having the form of an arch or of the Greek letter v.

A bone situated between the root of the tongue and the larynx.

Or designating a bone or series of bones lying at the base of the tongue and developed from the hyoid arch of the embryo.

It extends upwards as far as the hyoid bone and base of the mandible, and downwards as far as the sternum and clavicle. – Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles Alexis Thomson

V. Post- half of the omo- hyoid muscle. – Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

And at this point I will say on my first exploration I found all of the nerves and muscles that attach to the os hyoid at any point contracted, shortened and pulling the hyoid back to and pressing against the pneumogastric nerve, and all the nerves in that vicinity. – Philosophy of Osteopathy by Andrew T. Still

In fracture of the hyoid the fragments may be replaced by manipulation through the mouth, after which the head and neck are immobilised by a poroplastic collar. – Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles Alexis Thomson

It also controls, owing to the connections of the larynx with the hyoid bone, the muscles that fix the position of the larynx. – Resonance in Singing and Speaking by Thomas Fillebrown

41. The Hyoid Bone. – A Practical Physiology by Albert F. Blaisdell

There is also a thyro- hyoid, but because of its deep situation and its slight importance it offers no interest from our point of view. – Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Édouard Cuyer

In the Lewis's woodpecker and others of his genus the branches of the hyoid extend part- way up the back of the skull but in the kinds that live principally upon borers they are very long and resemble the flicker's in arrangement. – The Woodpeckers by Fannie Hardy Eckstorm

Those arising from the lower part form a swelling in the middle line of the neck, usually above, but sometimes below the hyoid bone. – Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles Alexis Thomson

1. Upper part of sterno- hyoid muscle. – Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

Above and from the sides rise two horns connected by bands to the hyoid bone from which the larynx is suspended. – A Practical Physiology by Albert F. Blaisdell

He may find trouble in nerve fiber of pneumogastric nerve, atlas or hyoid, vertebra, rib, or clavicle, may be by pressing on some nerve that supplies mucous membrane of air cells or passages. – Philosophy of Osteopathy by Andrew T. Still

The posterior cervical triangle, 9, 8, 7, Plate 4, in which the subclavian artery is situated, is again subdivided by the muscle omo- hyoid into two lesser regions, each of which assumes somewhat of a triangular shape. – Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

Wounds of the throat inflicted by suicides are commonly situated at the upper part, involving the hyoid bone and the thyroid and cricoid cartilages. – Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology by W. G. Aitchison Robertson

If these zoologists see in us nothing more than a mammal with thirty- two vertebrae possessing the hyoid bone and more folds in the hemispheres of the brain than any other animal; if in their opinion no other differences exist in this order than those produced by the influence of climate, on which are founded the nomenclature of fifteen species whose scientific names it is needless to cite, the physiologists ought also to have the right of making species and sub- species in accordance with definite degrees of intelligence and definite conditions of existence, oral and pecuniary. – The Physiology of Marriage, Part I. by Honore de Balzac

The hyoid bone, which in man is but slightly developed, is in these monkeys very large. – On the Banks of the Amazon by W.H.G. Kingston