Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A muscle that connects the mandible to the hyoid bone and draws the hyoid bone forward or depresses the jaw when the hyoid bone is fixed.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to the chin and the hyoid bone: specifically applied to the geniohyoideus. II. n. The geniohyoideus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the chin and hyoid bone.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective anatomy Of or pertaining to the
chin andhyoid bone. - noun anatomy A narrow
muscle situatedsuperior to themedial border of themylohyoid muscle .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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_ -- Nunneley of Leeds has recorded cases in which he made a small incision through the skin, and mylohyoid and geniohyoid muscles, and through this passed a curved needle bearing the chain of the écraseur completely round the base of the tongue.
A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners Joseph Bell 1874
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Further back on the head, the geniohyoid muscle (originating on the lateral and medial surfaces of the lower jaw, as well as from part of the hyoid apparatus) is enormous: combined with the brachiomandibular and coracohyoid muscles, it allows rapid, simultaneous downward and backward rotation of the hyoid skeleton and associated expansion of the throat.
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