Word Meanings - GENIOHYOID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the chin and hyoid bone; as, the geniohyoid muscle.

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• GENIOHYOID
  Of or pertaining to the chin and hyoid bone; as, the geniohyoid muscle.
• HYOIDEAL; HYOIDEAN
  See A
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• MUSCLE READING
  The art of making discriminations between objects of choice, of discovering the whereabouts of hidden objects, etc., by inference from the involuntary movements of one whose hand the reader holds or with whom he is otherwise in muscular contact.
• HYOID
  Of or pertaining to the bony or cartilaginous arch which supports the tongue. Sometimes applied to the tongue itself. Hyoid arch , the arch of cartilaginous or bony segments, which connects the base of the tongue with either side of the skull.
• MUSCLED
  Furnished with muscles; having muscles; as, things well muscled.
• MUSCLE
  See CONTRACTION (more info) An organ which, by its contraction, produces motion. See Illust. of Muscles of the Human Body, in Appendix. The contractile tissue of which muscles are largely made up. Note:
• SUBHYOIDEAN
  Situated or performed beneath the hyoid bone; as, subhyoidean laryngotomy.
• STERNOHYOID
  Of or pertaining to the sternum and the hyoid bone or cartilage.
• MANDIBULOHYOID
  Pertaining both to the mandibular and the hyoid arch, or situated between them.
• ICHTHYOID; ICHTHYOIDAL
  Somewhat like a fish; having some of the characteristics of fishes; -- said of some amphibians.
• OMOHYOID
  Of or pertaining to the shoulder and the hyoid bone; as, the omohyoid muscle.
• THYROHYOID
  Of or pertaining to the thyroid cartilage of the larynx and the hyoid arch.
• INFRAHYOID
  See
• SUPRAHYOID
  Hyomental.
• MYLOHYOID
  Pertaining to, or in the region of, the lower jaw and the hyoid apparatus; as, the mylohyoid nerve.
• PETROHYOID
  Pertaining to petrous, oe periotic, portion of the skull and the hyoid arch; as, the petrohyoid muscles of the frog.
• STYLOHYOID
  Of or pertaining to the styloid process and the hyoid bone.
• BASIHYOID
  The central tongue bone.