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Slender muscle from styloid process to hyoid. Closely related to posterior digastric. Often splits around the digastric intermediate tendon.
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Stylohyoid muscle: magnified reference view with a numbered learning marker. The complete original plate is available in the next view.
Image: OpenStax College · Source / original · CC BY 4.0Numbered markers and focused views are Mediveerse learning overlays; the original reference is linked above.
Stylohyoid muscle
Understand what you see.
Slender muscle from styloid process to hyoid.
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How to recognise it.
- Slender muscle from styloid process to hyoid
- Closely related to posterior digastric
- Often splits around the digastric intermediate tendon
Point them out.
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Think first. Then reveal.
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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.
01Identify stylohyoid muscle and justify your identification.+
Slender muscle from styloid process to hyoid. Closely related to posterior digastric. Often splits around the digastric intermediate tendon.
02What is its nerve supply?+
Facial nerve VII.
03What is its action?+
Elevates and retracts the hyoid during swallowing.
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