(a.) Having the form of an arch, or of the Greek letter upsilon [/].
(a.) Of or pertaining to the bony or cartilaginous arch which supports the tongue. Sometimes applied to the tongue itself.
(n.) The hyoid bone.
Example Sentences:
(1) The duration and "growth guidance" aspects of treatment allowed for functional as well as morphologic adaption to the altered hyoid position.
(2) Primitively, vibrations reached the stapes mainly via the anterior hyoid cornu, but in dicynodonts, therocephalians, and cynodants vibrations passed mainly or exclusively from mandible to quadrate to stapes and the reflected lamina was a component of the eardrum.
(3) The cranial force displacing the hyoid bone invariably showed a positive relationship with F0.
(4) This thin flap, usually extending from the hyoid bone to the sternal notch at the central part of the anterior neck, provides a skin island of about 4 by 8 cm.
(5) Therefore, 90 patients with documented obstructive sleep apnea were evaluated by cephalometric technique, with special attention paid to the size and position of the soft palate and uvula, volume and position of the tongue, mandibulo-maxillary relationship, hyoid position, and size of the pharyngeal airway space.
(6) The vital composite hyoid bone-muscle graft interposition technique offers a promising method for the solution of difficult cases of glottic, subglottic, and tracheal stenosis.
(7) After cephalometric analysis, poor responders were revealed to show significantly poor mandibular prognatism and also lower positioned hyoid bone than good responders.
(8) In the suprahyoideal method of Montgomery the cranial muscle-insertions at the hyoid are divided and the hyoid bone is transsected leaving the small and large horns.
(9) Long mandibular plane to hyoid bone (MP-H) distance and width of the posterior airway space (PAS) (space behind the base of the tongue) were statistically significant predictors of elevated RDI.
(10) Compared with low-density barium boluses, the high-density barium boluses were associated with later sphincter opening and closure, longer duration of sphincter opening and flow, lower flow rate, greater maximal anterior hyoid movement, greater sagittal sphincter diameter, and higher intrabolus pressure upstream of and within the sphincter.
(11) The injury involves the origin fibers of the middle pharyngeal constrictor muscle on the greater cornu of the hyoid bone.
(12) Thus, the nucleus ambiguus in Anolis contains motoneurons for supply of striated muscles in the hyoid (i.e.
(13) (P less than 0.01, P greater than 0.05) 2) The distance between the body of hyoid and posterior pharyngeal wall remained constant postoperatively (P greater than 0.05) 3) The distance between the body of hyoid and Menton was found to be shortened right after operation and remained constant thereafter.
(14) Interestingly, apnea and apnea plus hypopnea indices returned to normal values (< 5 and 10, respectively) in four subjects with normal posterior soft tissues and mandibular plane to the hyoid bone distances.
(15) The consistency and arrangement of the ligament suggests an important role of additional structural support in the region of the angle of the mandible and hyoid bone.
(16) Techniques of correction of thickening of the submental region are based on an anatomical analysis: position of the hyoid bone, mental protrusion, supra- or sub-platysmal steatomery, anatomy of the platysma muscle.
(17) The hyoid crest segment is located in the ceratohyal cartilage and in ganglia VII and VIII.
(18) A silastic keel is secured between the vocal cords at the anterior commissure by means of a loop of nylon passing externally through the crico-thyroid and crico-hyoid membranes.
(19) A new technique of laryngoplasty using the function of the suprahyoid muscles (hyoid transposition laryngoplasty) was reported.
(20) Results of film analysis indicate that the hyoid moves during all three behaviors.
Omohyoid
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the shoulder and the hyoid bone; as, the omohyoid muscle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Omohyoid muscle transfer to the denervated posterior cricoarytenoid muscle (PCA) was performed in three monkeys.
(2) The postulated mechanism of injury is a powerful contraction of the omohyoid muscle avulsing its insertion.
(3) The superiorly based omohyoid muscle flap was found to more closely emulate the size and orientation of the underlying PCA muscle.
(4) The ipsilateral uptake by the lymphatics on each side of the neck was consistently demonstrated in 15 subjects and allowed a comparative evaluation of the cervical lymphatic chains, including the submental, submandibular, jugulo-digastric and jugulo-omohyoid.
(5) Based on surgical ease of access, a 1 cm2 portion of the omohyoid muscle at the point of penetration of the second cervical nerve was used as a nerve-muscle pedicle graft in an attempt to reinnervate the left dorsal cricoarytenoid muscle in four ponies.
(6) Anatomical dissections in seven horses revealed two possible donor nerve-pedicle grafts: the omohyoid and the sternothyrohyoid, both innervated by a branch of the first and second cervical nerves.
(7) In the last 2 situations, evidence of a significant increase in the venous surface was found above the omohyoid muscle.
(8) In the medial column, motoneurons supplying the sternohyoid and sternothyroid muscles are distributed at the medullary and C1 levels, while those innervating the omohyoid muscle are primarily distributed at the C2 level.
(9) The longest diameter of the cyst was parallel to the right clavicule under the M. omohyoid.
(10) Histochemical evaluations in two ponies of the dorsal cricoarytenoid, omohyoid and sternothyrohyoid muscles revealed similar proportions of fiber types 1 and 2 in all three muscles.
(11) However, in the following 2 months a shift of the fiber pattern toward that of the normal omohyoid was observed, as evidenced by a strong increase in type IIB fibers (from 24% to 62%), at the expense of type IIA fibers.
(12) These data confirm the role of compression of the vein by the omohyoid muscle, leading to modifications in intracerebral venous hemodynamics, which can be affected in yawning.
(13) Treatment consisted of hemiglossectomy in continuity with a supra-omohyoidal neck dissection.
(14) The number of muscle spindles increases with advancement of the development being highest in the omohyoid muscle.
(15) In this procedure the branch of the ansa hypoglossi to the anterior belly of the omohyoid is mobilized and a small block of muscle containing the terminal branches is freed from the muscle proper.
(16) The supraomohyoid neck dissection is a selective cervical node dissection that removes the contents of the submental and submandibular triangles (lymph node level I), the jugulodigastric and jugulo-omohyoid lymph node groups, and the lymph node-bearing tissues located anterior to the cutaneous branches of the cervical plexus and above the omohyoid muscle (lymph node levels II and III).
(17) The efferent lymphatics of the latter emptied into angular lymph nodes and jugulo-omohyoid lymph nodes.
(18) One hundred forty-seven arteries had residual lesions that were more common when either a temporary shunt was used or the operation was carried out above the hypoglossal nerve or below the omohyoid muscle.
(19) After training, the left and right sternohyoid, omohyoid and sternothyroid muscles were cut close to the hyoid bone.
(20) Supraclavicular nodes between the subclavian vein and the omohyoid .