Exempel på hyoid

• Of the hyoid bar, only a few posterior incomplete branchiostegal rays can be recognized.

• Since all 17 skulls were associated with cervical vertebrae, and in some cases with hyoid bones, the heads evidently were fresh when they were interred.

• In chameleons, the tongue contracts against a tapered hyoid bone, eventually slipping off and projecting forward at very high speed.

• Region bound by the digastric muscle superiorly and the hyoid bone (clinical landmark), or the carotid bifurcation (surgical landmark) inferiorly.

• Their hyoid barbel distinguishes them from the males of all other deep-sea anglerfish.

• Neither the snow leopard nor the cheetah can roar, despite having hyoid morphology similar to roaring cats.

• The hyoid bone and the clavicle are the only bones located in the throat of mammals.

• The two most anterior pharyngeal arches are thought to have become the jaw itself and the hyoid arch, respectively.

• It projects obliquely upwards behind the tongue and the hyoid bone, pointing dorsally.

• One of the hints they use is the hyoid bone.

• Alternatively, if other muscles are used to keep the position of the hyoid fixed, then the mylohoid depresses the mandible.

• However, other researchers have claimed that the morphology of the hyoid is not indicative of the larynx's position.

• When retracted, the tongue is held in the oropharynx by the hyoid muscles and the secondary palate, preventing it from blocking respiration.

• In humans, the single hyoid bone is an equivalent of the hyoid apparatus.

• The hyoid bone is not part of the larynx, though the larynx is suspended from the hyoid.