stylohyoid

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

facial nerve (VII)

Sub-structures

• left stylohyoid
• right stylohyoid

Neighbouring structures

• digastric
• geniohyoid
• mylohyoid

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Identifiers

TA2

2164

TA98

A04.2.03.005

FMA

9625

UBERON

0008712

Wikidata

Q899783