Usually means: Supports tongue, anchors neck muscles.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. hyoid bone: Merriam-Webster
  2. hyoid bone: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. hyoid bone: Collins English Dictionary
  4. hyoid bone: Vocabulary.com
  5. hyoid bone: Wordnik
  6. hyoid bone: Wiktionary
  7. hyoid bone: Dictionary.com
  8. Hyoid Bone, Hyoid bone: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. hyoid bone: Rhymezone
  10. hyoid bone: FreeDictionary.org
  11. hyoid bone: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. hyoid bone: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hyoid bone: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. hyoid bone: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Hyoid Bone: Anatomy of the Human Body
  5. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  6. hyoid bone: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hyoid bone)

noun:  (anatomy) A U-shaped bone or complex of bones that is situated between the base of the tongue and the larynx and that supports the tongue, the larynx, and their muscles.

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