mylohyoid
Americanadjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of mylohyoid
1685–95; mylo- (< Greek mýlo ( s ) molar, literally, mill) + hyoid
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The stylohyoid muscle moves the hyoid bone posteriorly, elevating the larynx, and the mylohyoid muscle lifts it and helps press the tongue to the top of the mouth.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The muscle that forms the floor of the oral cavity attaches to the mylohyoid lines on both sides of the mandible.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
As you learned in your study of the muscular system, the extrinsic muscles of the tongue are the mylohyoid, hyoglossus, styloglossus, and genioglossus muscles.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Near the common suture of the dentary and the splenial is the large inferior alveolar foramen; completely within the splenial and ventral to the inferior alveolar foramen is the anterior mylohyoid foramen.
From A Revision of Snakes of the Genus Conophis (Family Colubridae, from Middle America) by John Wellman
Mylohyoid, mī-lō-hī′oid, adj. pertaining to the molar teeth and to the hyoid bone.—n. the mylohyoid muscle.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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