left stylohyoid
In 3 atlases
Definition
The stylohyoid is a pharyngeal arch II muscle that participates in oral/pharygeal behaviors and is innervated by the stylohoid branch of the facial nerve and attaches to the stylohyal and the non-stylohyal part of the hyoid apparatus.
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
- styloid process of temporal bone
- Insertion
- greater horn
- Innervation
- left facial nerve (VII)
Neighbouring structures
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Identifiers
- FMA
- 45827
- Wikidata
- Q66536101