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Thyrohyoid muscle: magnified reference view with a numbered learning marker. The complete original plate is available in the next view.
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Thyrohyoid muscle

Short muscle between thyroid cartilage and hyoid. Superior continuation in line with sternothyroid. An exception to typical ansa cervicalis supply of strap muscles.

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Thyrohyoid 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 4.0

Numbered markers and focused views are Mediveerse learning overlays; the original reference is linked above.

Thyrohyoid muscle

Suprahyoid & infrahyoid muscles

Thyrohyoid muscle

STRUCTURE & FUNCTION

Understand what you see.

Short muscle between thyroid cartilage and hyoid.

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01 / IDENTIFICATION

How to recognise it.

  1. Short muscle between thyroid cartilage and hyoid
  2. Superior continuation in line with sternothyroid
  3. An exception to typical ansa cervicalis supply of strap muscles
02 / KEY STRUCTURES

Point them out.

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Related features & study points (2)

Additional relations, attachments or microscopic details to revise alongside this plate. These are separate from its numbered image landmarks.

  • Hyoid body
  • C1 fibres
03 / VIVA PRACTICE

Think first. Then reveal.

Say your answer aloud before opening the suggested response.

Examiner-style prompts: identify the structure, explain its relations, then answer the applied follow-up. These are revision questions, not authenticated past papers.

01Identify thyrohyoid muscle and justify your identification.
SUGGESTED ANSWER

Short muscle between thyroid cartilage and hyoid. Superior continuation in line with sternothyroid. An exception to typical ansa cervicalis supply of strap muscles.

02What supplies it?
SUGGESTED ANSWER

C1 fibres carried with hypoglossal nerve.

03What can its contraction do?
SUGGESTED ANSWER

Depress the hyoid or elevate the larynx, depending on which attachment is fixed.

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