sternothyroid muscle (English, noun)
expansion: sternothyroid muscle (plural sternothyroid muscles)
Senses:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An infrahyoid muscle on each side of the body below the sternohyoid muscle that arises from the sternum and from the cartilage of the first and sometimes of the second ribs, inserts into the thyroid cartilage, and acts to draw the larynx downward by depressing the thyroid cartilage.
Forms:
form: sternothyroid muscles
tags: plural
form: sternothyroid
tags: alternative
form: sternothyroideus
tags: alternative