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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   One of the lower segments in the hyoid arch, often consolidated with the body of the hyoid bone and forming one of its great horns, as in humans.

Etymology

From thyro- + -hyal, from Ancient Greek ὖ (û, “the letter upsilon”).

Related phrases

hyoid archhyoid bone

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