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sternothyroid muscle

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
ster-nothy-roid -mus-cle
IPA
30
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
5
Syllables
14
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An infrahyoid muscle on each side of the body below the sternohyoid muscle that arises from the sternum and from the cartilage of the first and sometimes of the second ribs, inserts into the thyroid cartilage, and acts to draw the larynx downward by depressing the thyroid cartilage.

Inflected Forms

sternothyroid muscles (plural) sternothyroid (alternative) sternothyroideus (alternative)

Questions

What does sternothyroid muscle mean?
An infrahyoid muscle on each side of the body below the sternohyoid muscle that arises from the sternum and from the cartilage of the first and sometimes of the second ribs, inserts into the thyroid cartilage, and acts to draw the larynx downward by depressing the thyroid cartilage.

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