os hyoideum

1. 1.

   a U-shaped bone at the base of the tongue that supports the tongue muscles

   Synonymshyoidhyoid bone

   Broaderbone

Questions about os hyoideum

What does os hyoideum mean?

os hyoideum means "a U-shaped bone at the base of the tongue that supports the tongue muscles".

What is another word for os hyoideum?

Close synonyms include hyoid, hyoid bone. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is os hyoideum a common word?

os hyoideum is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.