KERATO-HYOIDEUS

(Lat.), n. m. Kear"a2t(aat)-o(o3)-hi- (hu8)-o(o3)-i2d(ed)'e2-u3s(u4s). From icepos. a horn, the letter *, and t6os, resemblance. A muscle of the lower mammals, arising from the posterior border of the styloid cornu and the inferior extremity of the styloid bone, and attached to the superior border of the thyreoid cornu. It approximates the cornua of the hyoid bone. [LJ K.-h. parvus. See K.-h. [s. 534]