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petrohyoid

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
petro-hy-oid
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Pertaining to the petrous, or periotic, portion of the skull and the hyoid arch.

noun

A petrohyoid muscle.

Example Sentences

Etymology

From petro- + hyoid.

Word Breakdown

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Medicine.

Inflected Forms

petrohyoids (plural)

Rhymes With

hyoid mylohyoid geniohyoid omohyoid myoid thyrohyoid suprahyoid pyoid sternohyoid infrahyoid stylohyoid ceratioid

Questions

What does petrohyoid mean?
Pertaining to the petrous, or periotic, portion of the skull and the hyoid arch.
Where does petrohyoid come from?
From petro- + hyoid.

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