os hyoidesn.
/ˌɒs hʌɪˈɔɪdiːz/, U.S. /ˌɑs ˌ(h)aɪˈɔɪˌdiz/ Anatomy and Zoology. Now rare.
The hyoid bone (os hyoideum).
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os hyoides1578
palatines1623
palate bone1688
hyoid bone1763
tongue-bone1841
palatal bone1842
glossohyal1854
palatopterygoid1854
palatal1859
os hyoideum1869
mentomeckelian1871
postpalatal1871
hyoid1872
hyomandibular1873
interhyal1888
splanchnocranium1907
1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 16v Os Hyoides..is so firmified in the middest, as to neither part it easely slippeth.
1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 852 It is especially remarked, that though the muscles of the Os hyoides, or Tongue-bone, the Tongue, the Larynx, and Pharynx, which especially serve for the Articulation of the Voice, be in Apes altogether like to those of a Man..yet is the Ape deprived of Speech.
1726 A. Monro Anat. Humane Bones 267 The Scapula..is connected by Sysarcosis to the Head, Vertebræ, Ribs and Os Hyoides.
1800 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. I. 71 This howling faculty is owing to the conformation of the os hyoides, or throat bone, which is dilated into a bottle-shaped concavity.
1842 E. Wilson Anatomist's Vade Mecum (ed. 2) 58 The Os Hyoides..gives support to the tongue.
1889 Science 11 Jan. 30/1 He had taken the pains of making careful observation of this feature, and had made preparations of full sets of the os hyoides both in man and the lower mammalia.
1967 H. Hill & E. Dodsworth Food Inspection Notes (ed. 7) 11 Os hyoides, five segments.
1985 Anatomischer Anzeiger 158 43 (title) A comparative study of the hyoid bone (os hyoides) of 6 ruminant species.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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