Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to one of the pieces of the hyoidean arch: as, an epihyal bone or ligament.
- noun In anatomy and zoology, one of the pieces of the hyoidean arch; one of the elements of the second postoral visceral arch; a bone intervening between the stylohyal and the ceratohyal, represented in the human subject by the stylohyoid ligament, but of usual occurrence as a bone in other mammals.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) A segment next above the ceratohyal in the hyoidean arch.
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- noun anatomy A
segment next above theceratohyal in the hyoidean arch.
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Examples
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It frequently contains a little cartilage in its center, is often partially ossified, and in many animals forms a distinct bone, the epihyal.
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The stylohyal (s.h.), epihyal (e.h.), and ceratohyal (c.h.) form the anterior cornu of the hyoid.
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The right, great cornu is shown extending backwards from the body of the Hyoid and terminating beneath the letters Ep.Fig. 40 -- Extracranial portion of hyoidean apparatus of Dog, front views sh, stylohyal; eh, epihyal; ch, ceratohyal (these three constitute the "anterior cornu"); bh, basihyal, or "body" of hyoid; th, thyrohyal, or "posterior cornu."
The Common Frog 1874
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He finds the representatives of other bones of the sternum in the large bones (_epihyal_ and _ceratohyal_, or the two pieces of the
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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