left mylohyoid
In 2 atlases
Definition
The mylohyoid is a pharyngeal arch I muscle that participates in oral/pharyngeal behaviors and is innervated by the nerve to mylohyoid and attaches to the midline raphe linking right and left mylohyoid and the mandible.
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
- Mylohyoid line
- Insertion
- body of hyoid bone
- Innervation
- left nerve to mylohyoid muscle
The 3D model shows 1 origin or insertion area of this muscle.
Neighbouring structures
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Identifiers
- FMA
- 46322
- Wikidata
- Q66536471