mylohyoid

American  

[mahy-loh-hahy-oid] / ˌmaɪ loʊˈhaɪ ɔɪd /

adjective

1. Also mylohyoidean of, relating to, or situated near the lower molar teeth and the hyoid bone.

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noun

1. a flat, triangular muscle that forms the floor of the mouth.

Etymology

Origin of mylohyoid

1685–95; mylo- (< Greek mýlo ( s ) molar, literally, mill) + hyoid

Example Sentences

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

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

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 Wellman, John