(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.
Pyoid
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to pus; of the nature of, or like, pus.