The hyoid bone

The hyoid bone , os hyoideum, lies under the body of the tongue, has the shape of a horseshoe and can be probed by thin people through the skin. With other bones it is connected by means of ligaments. The hyoid bone consists of a body, corpus, and large and small horns, cornua majora et cornua minora. The body of the bone has the shape of a plate convex anteriorly; It carries on itself a transverse and vertical crests. The upper edge of the plate is pointed, the lower one is thickened. The lateral edges of the body are connected to the large horns with the help of articular surfaces or fibrous or hyaline cartilage,

Large horns move away from the body of the bone in the direction of the back and the outside. They are thinner and longer than the body and have small bulges at the ends.

Small horns move away from the junction of the body of the bone with large horns. Sometimes they remain cartilaginous. With the body of the hyoid bone, the small horns are connected either by means of a joint with a slightly strained capsule, or with the help of connective tissue. Their ends are enclosed and the shilo-lingual ligament, lig. Stylohyoideum. This bunch sometimes contains one or more small bones.

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