The U-shaped bone within the anterior (towards the front) upper neck.
adjective, Greek = U-shaped.
a U-shaped bone at the base of the tongue that supports the tongue muscles
(G. hyoeides, shaped like the Greek letter upsilon). A "U"- or "V"-shaped structure. The os hyoideum.
In the neck, below the tongue (held in place by ligaments and muscles between it and the styloid process of the temporal bone). Supports the tongue, providing attachment sites for some tongue muscles, and also some muscles of the neck and pharynx. (Commonly fractured during strangulation, so studied in autopsies if strangulation suspected.)
A bone in the neck suspended between muscles that help produce the swallowing motion.
U- shaped bone at the base of the tongue used to attach the tongue muscles.