geniohyoid
Musculus geniohyoideus
In 2 atlases
Definition
The geniohyoid is a muscle that attaches to the mandible and the hyoid apparatus and is innervated by the first cervical nerve (C1).
Source: UBERON · Licence: CC-BY-3.0
Definition from the Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall CJ et al., Genome Biology 2012, 13:R5), https://obophenotype.github.io/uberon/, licensed under CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
Relations
- Origin
- inferior mental spine
- Insertion
- body of hyoid bone
- Innervation
- deep branches of cervical plexus
Sub-structures
Neighbouring structures
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Identifiers
- TA2
- 2166
- TA98
- A04.2.03.007
- FMA
- 46325
- UBERON
- 0001565
- Wikidata
- Q1072007