"Hyoid Bone" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A mobile U-shaped bone that lies in the anterior part of the neck at the level of the third CERVICAL VERTEBRAE. The hyoid bone is suspended from the processes of the TEMPORAL BONES by ligaments, and is firmly bound to the THYROID CARTILAGE by muscles.
| Descriptor ID |
D006928
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A02.835.232.409
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| Concept/Terms |
Hyoid Bone- Hyoid Bone
- Bone, Hyoid
- Bones, Hyoid
- Hyoid Bones
- Lingual Bone
- Bone, Lingual
- Bones, Lingual
- Lingual Bones
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| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Hyoid Bone" by people in Profiles.
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Biomechanical and Cortical Control of Tongue Movements During Chewing and Swallowing. Dysphagia. 2024 Feb; 39(1):1-32.
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Morphological disparity and evolutionary transformations in the primate hyoid apparatus. J Hum Evol. 2022 01; 162:103094.
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Injuries of the isolated larynx-hyoid complex in post-mortem computed tomography (PMCT) and post-mortem fine preparation (PMFP) - a comparison of 54 forensic cases. Eur Radiol. 2020 Aug; 30(8):4564-4572.
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Feeding kinematics and morphology of the alligator gar (Atractosteus spatula, Lacépède, 1803). J Morphol. 2019 10; 280(10):1548-1570.
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New Jurassic mammaliaform sheds light on early evolution of mammal-like hyoid bones. Science. 2019 Jul 19; 365(6450):276-279.
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Carotid artery atherosclerosis is not associated with hyoid proximity: Results from a cross-sectional and longitudinal cohort study. Clin Imaging. 2019 Nov - Dec; 58:39-45.
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An early chondrichthyan and the evolutionary assembly of a shark body plan. Proc Biol Sci. 2018 01 10; 285(1870).
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Evolution of muscle activity patterns driving motions of the jaw and hyoid during chewing in Gnathostomes. Integr Comp Biol. 2011 Aug; 51(2):235-46.