HYOID BONE

a U-shaned bone lying immediately above the thyroid cartilage of the larnyx, and near the root of the tongue to the muscles of which it] gives attachment. It consists of a more or le rectangular body (basthyal), and two pairs of unequal cornua or horns; the greater curve upwards and backwards, the smaller, about }4-in. in length, are, attached to the basihyal near its jJunctions with the great cornua. The five distinct portions in youth have cartilaginous connections, but after middle age the whole may become o ified into a. single bone. lecturer, Platonic school at Alexandria, founded by Plot in us; mathematician and philosopher; murdered by fanatics. sensory nerves; symptom.-of diseases. of brain or spinal cord or of hysteria (@.v.). ping over), term of rhetoric for alteration of order of words for sake of emphasis.