Under the lower jaw is a little horseshoe shaped bone called the hyoid bone, because it is shaped like the Greek letter upsilon (Υ). From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
The first of these is called the hyoid arch (c.h.), and the four following this, the first (br. 1), second, third, and fourth. From Wordnik.com. [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference
It's called the hyoid bone. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 15, 2005] Reference
If the person was strangled, the hyoid bone may be broken. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 8, 2008] Reference
But the thyroid cartilage and hyoid bone both seem intact. From Wordnik.com. [Harvest] Reference
The ME discovers that Clark's hyoid bone has been fractured. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 15, 2005] Reference
You have a u-shaped bone in your neck caused the hyoid bone. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 24, 2006] Reference
Neither the hyoid bone nor the thyroid cartilage was broken. From Wordnik.com. [A Darkness More Than Night]
Hunt testified that the hyoid bone, found in the neck, had been broken. From Wordnik.com. [Prison pen pal testified of Guandique's dead girl' letters] Reference
The hyoid bone, like the knee-pan, is not connected with any other bone. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
The form of the omo-hyoid is also to be distinguished in the like bodies. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
The hyoid bone is a fragile neck bone broken in 99 % of all manual strangulations. From Wordnik.com. [Casey Sherman: The Pathologist and The Grasshopper] Reference
II., the lower part became the horn of the hyoid, the upper part had a varying fate. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
Strangulation most often affects the hyoid, a small bone in the front of the throat. From Wordnik.com. [Break No Bones]
“Cricoid, hyoid cartilage, and thyroid cartilage are all intact,” Gina muttered. From Wordnik.com. [Sparks] Reference
I mean, can you tell that far along, unless there is possibly a break in the hyoid bone?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 26, 2008] Reference
The report asserts that the hyoid was broken “during the removal of the neck organs.”. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Death at Gitmo] Reference
SHARON: And I ` m curious, would the ME be able to detect broken hyoid bones in the throat?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 23, 2008] Reference
Hatab's hyoid bone, a U-shaped throat bone located at the base of the tongue, was never found. From Wordnik.com. [What Next for TortureGate?] Reference
Its also an effective way to asphyxiate someone without leaving the telltale broken hyoid bone. From Wordnik.com. [Fat Chance] Reference
The third arch takes a varying share, together with the second, in the formation of the hyoid apparatus. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
The omo-hyoid muscle and the deep cervical fascia, as will be presently seen, conceal these vessels also. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
We've got hemorrhaging in the lungs and in the eyes, not to mention a fractured hyoid bone in the throat. From Wordnik.com. [The Delicate Storm]
The hyoid is at first connected with the skull, but afterwards frees itself and becomes slung to the "quadrate.". From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
Above and from the sides rise two horns connected by bands to the hyoid bone from which the larynx is suspended. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
In developing Amphibia Huxley found a suspensorium of hyoid and mandibular arches similar to the hyomandibular of fish. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
But if you pull it tight enough, you can actually cut through some of the skin or collapse the trachea and the hyoid bone. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 23, 2009] Reference
Gluckman and by the state pathologist, the man had had multiple injuries and that the hyoid bone in his neck had been fractured. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The hyoid bones (a fragile bone in the throat) were intact indicating that the method was neither strangulation nor throat cutting. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Hierakonpolis 2008 - Field Note 1] Reference
The omo-hyoid muscle was therefore divided, and the artery ligatured beneath, in order to ensure against any interference with the sac. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
Some bones -- including the shoulder blade and hyoid, a horseshoe-shaped bone involved in speech -- have never been seen in its species. From Wordnik.com. [They Call Her 'Lucy's Daughter'] Reference
The carotid was exposed at the upper border of the omo-hyoid, only a small amount of infiltration having occurred in the vascular cleft. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
At the top it is partly encircled by a small bone (the hyoid), and its opening into the pharynx is guarded by a flexible lid, called the. From Wordnik.com. [Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools] Reference
The skeleton of the insect's head is said to correspond to the bones of the face, to the bones of the cerebrum and to the hyoid of higher. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
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