A bone in the throat just above the larynx at the base of the tongue.
A small U-shaped bone at the base of the tongue.
A flat, U-shaped bone that does not touch any other bones but functions as a bony bridge that anchors the muscles of the tongue.
Bone at the base of the tongue. The hyoid bone is a small, isolated, U-shaped bone that forms the center part of the hyoid arch supporting the tongue.
A small isolated U-shaped bone in the neck, below and supporting the tongue. It is held in position by muscles and ligaments between it and the styloid process of the temporal bone.
The horseshoe-shaped bone at the base of the tongue. It is mobile and its ends hang by stylohyoid ligaments from the styloid process on each side of the base is suspended by many muscles (the hyoid muscles): the suprahyoid muscles (geniohyoid, mylohyoid, digastric, and hyoglossus) attach the hyoid bone to the mandible and the floor of the mouth; the infrahyoid muscles (omohyoid, sterno-hyoid, and thyrohyoid) attach it to the larynx and the thoracic cage. The hyoid bone anchors and moves with the jaw, tongue, pharynx, and larynx.
U-shaped bone at the base of the tongue that supports the tongue and its muscles.