The bone hyoïde (of the Greek Upsilon (Greek letter) and eidos (the form)), sometimes called lingual bone is only the Os human body which is not articulated with other bones of the Squelette. It is with the top of the Larynx in the former part of the neck, with the lower part of the base of the language. It is composed of five parts (separate in the young age of the subject) named body , large horns and small horns . This bone fills of the important functions relative to the bodies of the taste, the voice and swallowing.

Several muscles of the Mâchoire are attached to the bone hyoïde, as well as a great number of the muscles which support and which drive the language, the Pharynx and the Larynx. At the end of the large horns, the thyroid cartilage of the larynx (known as Adam's apple) is attached by ligaments. The end of the small horns is attached by ligaments to the apophyses styloïdes the temporal ones.

hyoid bone ( Os Hyoideum ; " Lingual Bone") has Bone in the Human Neck, not articulated to any other bone; it is supported by the Muscle S off the neck and in turn supports the root off the Tongue. Its name is derived from the Greek Word hyoeides meaning " shaped like the letter upsilon" ( υ ). The hyoid bone is shaped like has horseshoe, and is suspended from the tips off the Styloid process are off the temporal bones by the stylohyoid ligaments. It consists off five segments: has body, two greater cornua, and two to injure cornua. -->

The body gold basihyal

The greater cornua gold thyrohyals

To injure cornua gold ceratohyals

Ossification

Fracture

See too

• osseous Terminology
• Terms of anatomical localization