Hyoid bone

Study entry

Parts

U-shaped bone, mobile, in the front of the neck at the level of C3, in the angle between the mandible and the thyroid cartilage. Body (about 2.5 cm wide and 1 cm thick) and greater and lesser horns.

Joints

It does not articulate with any other bone: it is suspended from the styloid processes by the stylohyoid ligaments and firmly attached to the thyroid cartilage.

Source: cap. 9, «Hueso hioides»

Other structures in this region

• Thyroid cartilage
• Cricoid cartilage
• Arytenoid, corniculate and cuneiform cartilages
• Epiglottis (epiglottic cartilage)
• Membranes and ligaments of the larynx (conus elasticus and quadrangular membrane)
• Frontal bone
• Parietal bone
• Occipital bone