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Detailing a fracture to Sara’s hyoid, a u-shaped bone at the top of her neck, Professor Arthurs said it was “extremely rare”. ... marks from the lower left leg to the top of the foot and ...
The hyoid bone (lingual bone or tongue-bone) (/ ˈ h aɪ ɔɪ d / [2] [3]) is a horseshoe-shaped bone situated in the anterior midline of the neck between the chin and the thyroid cartilage. At rest, it lies between the base of the mandible and the third cervical vertebra .
Hyoid, the shape that resembles the Greek letter υ. Hyoid bone; V-shape, the shape that resembles the letter V, also known as the Chevron (which includes the inverted-V shape) V-shaped valley; V-shaped recession; V-shaped body – male human body shape with broad shoulders; V-shaped passage grave; V sign; V-tail; W-shape, the shape that ...
The hyoid bone fracture is a very rare fracture of the hyoid bone, accounting for 0.002% of all fractures in humans. It is commonly associated with strangulation and rarely occurs in isolation. The fracture may be associated with gunshot injury, car accidents or induced vomiting. In 50% of strangulations and 27% of hangings, hyoid fractures occur.
The irregular bones are bones which, from their peculiar form, cannot be grouped as long, short, flat or sesamoid bones.Irregular bones serve various purposes in the body, such as protection of nervous tissue (such as the vertebrae protect the spinal cord), affording multiple anchor points for skeletal muscle attachment (as with the sacrum), and maintaining pharynx and trachea support, and ...
Medial (towards the midline), formed by the midline of the neck between the mandible and the hyoid bone; Inferior (below), formed by the body of the hyoid bone; Floor is formed by the mylohyoideus; Roof is formed by investing layer of deep cervical fascia
These four muscles have different actions, but in general assist in elevating the hyoid bone and widening the esophagus during swallowing.When the two bellies of the digastric contract, they pull upward on the hyoid bone; but if the hyoid is fixed from below, the digastric assists in extreme opening of the mouth such as yawning or taking a large bite of an apple. [1]
Hatab also had a broken hyoid bone — the free-floating, wishbone-shaped bone supporting the tongue. That, she said, caused him to slowly asphyxiate after he was dragged by the neck to a holding pen. She declared the death a homicide." [3]