Word Meanings - OMOHYOID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the shoulder and the hyoid bone; as, the omohyoid muscle.

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• SHOULDER
  The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint. 2. The flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder joint; the
• SHOULDER-SHOTTEN
  Sprained in the shoulder, as a horse. Shak.
• SHOULDERED
  Having shoulders; -- used in composition; as, a broad- shouldered man. "He was short-shouldered." Chaucer.
• 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
• OMOHYOID
  Of or pertaining to the shoulder and the hyoid bone; as, the omohyoid muscle.
• 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:
• HUMP-SHOULDERED
  Having high, hunched shoulders. Hawthorne.
• SUBHYOIDEAN
  Situated or performed beneath the hyoid bone; as, subhyoidean laryngotomy.
• STERNOHYOID
  Of or pertaining to the sternum and the hyoid bone or cartilage.
• GENIOHYOID
  Of or pertaining to the chin and hyoid bone; as, the geniohyoid muscle.
• 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.
• THYROHYOID
  Of or pertaining to the thyroid cartilage of the larynx and the hyoid arch.
• ROUND-SHOULDERED
  Having the shoulders stooping or projecting; round-backed.
• INFRAHYOID
  See
• SUPRAHYOID
  Hyomental.