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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.…

Same as Hyoid, a.

The central tongue bone.

Of or pertaining to the chin and hyoid bone; as, the geniohyoid muscle.

Somewhat like a fish; having some of the characteristics of fishes; -- said of some amphibians.

Same as Hyosternal (a).

Pertaining both to the mandibular and the hyoid arch, or situated between them.

Pertaining to, or in the region of, the lower jaw and the hyoid apparatus; as, the mylohyoid nerve.

Of or pertaining to the shoulder and the hyoid bone; as, the omohyoid muscle.

Pertaining to petrous, oe periotic, portion of the skull and the hyoid arch; as, the petrohyoid muscles of the frog.

Of or pertaining to the sternum and the hyoid bone or cartilage.

Of or pertaining to the styloid process and the hyoid bone.

Situated or performed beneath the hyoid bone; as, subhyoidean laryngotomy.

Hyomental.

Of or pertaining to the thyroid cartilage of the larynx and the hyoid arch.

Having the mandibular arch articulated with the hyoid arch and the cranium, as in the cestraciont sharks; -- said of a skull.

Of or pertaining to a portion of the horn of the hyoid bone.

Noting two small bones, forming the body of the inverted hyoid arch.

Pertaining to the bone, or carts, large, below the epihyal in the hyoid arch. -- n.

A segment next above the ceratohyal in the hyoidean arch.