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Hyoid Bone

"Hyoid Bone" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Hyoid Bone" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Hyoid Bone" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 28 publications over 17 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2015
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.