sternohyoid

sternohyoid
ster·no·hy·oid .stər-nō-'hī-.ȯid n an infrahyoid muscle on each side of the midline that arises from the medial end of the clavicle and the first segment of the sternum, inserts into the body of the hyoid bone, and acts to depress the hyoid bone and the larynx
sternohyoid adj

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n.
a muscle in the neck, arising from the sternum and inserted into the hyoid bone. It depresses the hyoid bone.

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ster·no·hy·oid (stur″no-hiґoid) pertaining to the sternum and to the hyoid bone.

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