hyoid

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Etymology

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Borrowing from French hyoïde, from New Latin hȳoīdēs, from Ancient Greek ῡ̔οειδής (hūoeidḗs, shaped like the letter "υ"), from (û, the Greek letter upsilon) +‎ -ο- (-o-) +‎ -ειδής (-eidḗs, -like, -oid).

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Adjective

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hyoid (not comparable)

  1. Shaped like a U, or like the letter upsilon (υ).
    Synonym: U-shaped
    This stick has a hyoid shape.
    • 1969, JG Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition:
      The hyoid bone in her throat flutters as if discharging some subvocal rosary.
    • 2023, Brad Fox, The Bathysphere Book: Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths:
      Beebe referred to these never-before-seen creatures as monsters, as devils and dragons. But he though of their bodies as philosophies, traditions of thought, as schools of dragonism. A college drop-out, he wondered what was to be learned at their great university: An astronesthes with batteries of hells-eye lights on its cheeks, a looped string of twenty lavender glowing beads suspended from its hyoid dewlap.
  2. (anatomy, zootomy, relational) Of or pertaining to the hyoid bone.
    Synonyms: hyoidal, hyoideal, hyoidean

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Noun

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hyoid (plural hyoids)

  1. (anatomy) Ellipsis of hyoid bone.
    • 1973, Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise:
      the vulture, relinquishing its title, surely in natural justice gave me a right to this femur, this curiously distorted hyoid?

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