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omohyoid muscle

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
omo-hy-oid -mus-cle
IPA
27
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A long slender digastric muscle which arises from the upper border of the shoulder blade and passes obliquely along the side and front of the neck to the lower border of the body of the hyoid bone, and acts to draw the hyoid bone in a caudal direction.

Inflected Forms

omohyoid muscles (plural) omohyoid (alternative) omohyoideus (alternative)

Questions

What does omohyoid muscle mean?
A long slender digastric muscle which arises from the upper border of the shoulder blade and passes obliquely along the side and front of the neck to the lower border of the body of the hyoid bone, and acts to draw the hyoid bone in a caudal direction.

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