GENIO-HYOIDEUS

(Lat.), n. m. Jean(gean)-i(e)"o(os)-hi(huV o(oa)-iad(ed)'ea-u3s(u4s). Lat., genio-hyoideus. Yr.,genio-hyo'i<li<-n. Ger., Kinnzungenbeinmuskel. The genio hyoid muscle; in the solipeds, a muscle arising from the genial surface of the inferior maxilla, and attached to the five extremity of the appendix of the hyoid bone. It draws the hyoid bone toward the anterior part of the intermaxillary space. [L, 13.] G.-h. superior [Ferrein]. Certain of the transverse fibres of the tongue connected with the le er cornua of the hyoid bone. [L, 31, 332.] [s. 168]