Hyoid is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.
You can make 37 anagrams from letters in hyoid (dhioy).
1700-10; New Latin hȳoïdes Greek hȳoeidḗs, shaped like the letter hypsilon (i.e. upsilon), equivalent to hȳ- (derivative of letter name hŷ, variant of ŷ; see upsilo
From above downward one feels in the middle line the parts in the order previously mentioned, beginning with the hyoid bone.
This flap, an outgrowth of the hyoid arch, is known as the operculum.
The hyoid bone, like the knee-pan, is not connected with any other bone.
Note the U-shaped hyoid bone surrounding the front of the glottis.
The hyoid apparatus has no skeletal connection with the rest of the skull.
It is inserted, not on the gill-arches, but on the hyoid arch.
The hyoid bone is not a part of the larynx, but from it the larynx is suspended.
The hyoid in most respects resembles that of the Insectivora.
The hyoid is constructed on much the same plan in all Marsupials.
The hyoid arch is noticeable for the length of the anterior cornu.
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