0 a U-shaped bone in the middle of the neck between the chin and the thyroid that supports the tongue and tongue muscles
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.
