Word Meanings - STERNOHYOID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the sternum and the hyoid bone or cartilage.

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• CARTILAGE
  A translucent, elastic tissue; gristle. Note: Cartilage contains no vessels, and consists of a homogeneous, intercellular matrix, in which there are numerous minute cavities, or capsules, containing protoplasmic cells, the cartilage corpuscul. See
• 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
• 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.
• STERNUM
  A plate of cartilage, or a series of bony or cartilaginous plates or segments, in the median line of the pectoral skeleton of most vertebrates above fishes; the breastbone. Note: The sternum is connected with the ribs or the pectorial girdle, or
• SUBHYOIDEAN
  Situated or performed beneath the hyoid bone; as, subhyoidean laryngotomy.
• STERNOHYOID
  Of or pertaining to the sternum and the hyoid bone or cartilage.
• EPISTERNUM
  One of the lateral pieces next to the sternum in the thorax of insects. (more info) A median bone connected with the sternum, in many vertebrates; the interclavicle. Same as Epiplastron.
• GENIOHYOID
  Of or pertaining to the chin and hyoid bone; as, the geniohyoid muscle.
• FIBROCARTILAGE
  A kind of cartilage with a fibrous matrix and approaching fibrous connective tissue in structure. -- Fi`bro*car`ti*lag"i*nous, a.
• HYPOSTERNUM
  See HYPOPLASTRON
• PRESTERNUM
  The anterior segment of the sternum; the manubrium. -- Pre*ster"nal, a.
• PROSTERNUM
  The ventral plate of the prothorax of an insect.
• MANDIBULOHYOID
  Pertaining both to the mandibular and the hyoid arch, or situated between them.
• HYOSTERNUM
  See HYOPLASTRON
• 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.
• OMOSTERNUM
  The anterior element of the sternum which projects forward from between the clavicles in many batrachians and is usually tipped with cartilage. In many mammals, an interarticular cartilage, or bone, between the sternum and the clavicle.
• MESOSTERNUM
  The middle portion, or body, of the sternum.