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Hyoid bone: labelled teaching diagram. Original labels and colours retained.
Image: OpenStax College / university open textbook · Source / original · CC BY 4.0Numbered markers and focused views are Mediveerse learning overlays; the original reference is linked above.
Hyoid bone
Understand what you see.
Anchors muscles involved in tongue movement and swallowing.
Zoom into the original labels. Practise pointing out each structure, then explain it aloud. Diagrams are teaching references; specimen appearance and slide staining vary.
How to recognise it.
- A U-shaped bone in the anterior neck
- A central body has greater and lesser horns
- It does not directly articulate with another bone
Point them out.
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Examiner-style prompts: identify the structure, explain its relations, then answer the applied follow-up. These are revision questions, not authenticated past papers.
01How would you identify hyoid bone?+
A U-shaped bone in the anterior neck. A central body has greater and lesser horns. It does not directly articulate with another bone.
02What is unusual about the hyoid's articulations?+
It has no direct bony articulation and is suspended by muscles and ligaments.
03Name the principal parts of the hyoid.+
Body, greater horns and lesser horns.
04Name muscles in the suprahyoid group.+
Digastric, mylohyoid, geniohyoid and stylohyoid.
05Do all infrahyoid muscles share exactly the same nerve supply?+
No. Sternohyoid, sternothyroid and omohyoid receive ansa cervicalis; thyrohyoid receives C1 fibres travelling with XII.
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Credited anatomical plates, microscopy and university teaching references. Individual image credits appear below the viewer. Historical plates can use older terminology; use the lesson text for current names.