Horseshoe-shaped bone situated in the anterior midline of the neck between the chin and the thyroid cartilage

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Anatomy and botany; top, hyoid bone and vertebrae; left, vertebral column; right, gentian. Coloured engraving, 1834-1837.

The hyoid and its associated muscles in snakes / David A. Langebartel.

Der Tractus thyreoglossus und seine Beziehungen zum Zungenbein / von Wilhelm His.

De ossis hyoidei fractura : dissertatio inauguralis medico-chirurgica ... / auctor Reinhardus Bitkow.

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Hyoid Bone

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Anatomy and botany; top, hyoid bone and vertebrae; left, vertebral column; right, gentian. Coloured engraving, 1834-1837.

The hyoid and its associated muscles in snakes / David A. Langebartel.

Der Tractus thyreoglossus und seine Beziehungen zum Zungenbein / von Wilhelm His.

De ossis hyoidei fractura : dissertatio inauguralis medico-chirurgica ... / auctor Reinhardus Bitkow.