Greater horn of the hyoid bone

Study entry

Description

A projection backward, upward and to the side, at each end of the body; joined to it by fibrocartilage in the young and by bone in the elderly.

Source: cap. 9, «Hueso hioides»

Other structures in this region

• Squamous part of the frontal bone
• Orbital part of the frontal bone
• Glabella
• Superciliary arch
• Supraorbital margin
• Supraorbital foramen (notch)
• Frontal eminence
• Frontal crest