Talk:Hyoid bone

message: what is the function of the hyoid bone in swallowing?
please put a diagram of some kind to indicate where in the head/neck this bone is located.  The diagram of the bone itself is very nice, but where is it in the body?
Just as a guess, it looks like the jaw bone. anyone know for sure?
:It's in the neck, at the base of the tongue.  -- Dominus 13:12, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: perhaps the shape is unique in humans, I don't know, but I'm pretty sure the bone is found in other mammals, such as dogs. Provophys 23:23, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The shape of every bone in every species skeleton is unique to that species. :-) - ∅ (∅), 22:43, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
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message: Only the human neck? I've heard that, at least, cats have it too. --Taraborn 16:15, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I moved the word "human" from "neck" to "skeleton". (...is a bone in the neck, and is the only bone in the human skeleton not articulated...) Other species have this bone, so it's not only in the human neck that it can be found, and humans are one of the few species of mammal that don't have a baculum (another "isolated" bone), which is why it makes sense to describe it as the only bone in the human skeleton that isn't articulated to any other bone. - ∅ (∅), 22:54, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The hyoid bone (Lingual Bone) is a bone in the human neck 

message: This connection is mentioned by 'lesser cornu' (of hyoid bone) Wiki article, to which hyoid bone is cross-referenced.  A direct mention and cross-reference from 'hyoid bone' article to the 'stylohyoid ligament' Wiki article itself would obviously be in order. This does require at least some qualification of the [hyoid bone]"not articulated to any other bone" statement.  Terminologica Anatomica lists stylohyoid ligament under cranial syndesmoses, and as such is a joint and technically an articulation.  The stylohyoid ligament may provide no more functional 'articulation' (i.e., direct or dictate the manner in which any muscle attachment moves the hyoid bone) than the attached muscles provide to each other, or that provided by other connective tissue attached to the hyoid bone, so it is hardly an articulation in the manner of a synovial joint (nor in the 'immovable' manner of other fibrous joints), but nevertheless it is an articulation. So the stylohyoid ligament should be mentioned in the hyoid bone article, and I think the "not articulated to any other bone" statement qualified in light of this.  I don't think it should be removed, as to my understanding the hyoid bone functions as if it is not articulated to any other bone, but at this point I am not quite sure what to say in the article, and so offer this instead.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.11.69.147 (talk) 20:02, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  hyoid bone connected to styloid process by stylohyoid ligament 

message: A merge has been proposed between Greater cornu and Lesser cornu and this article (not by me).--LT910001 (talk) 05:42, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge 

message: "Due to its position, the hyoid bone is not susceptible to easy fracture. In a suspected case of murder, a fractured hyoid strongly indicates throttling or strangulation in an adult. However, this is not necessarily the case in children and adolescents, where the hyoid bone is still flexible as ossification is yet to be completed."
Is the author of this still around to explain what is intended ?  The final sentence: "However, this is not necessarily the case in children and adolescents, where the hyoid bone is still flexible as ossification is yet to be completed." Would make sense if it were preceded by "Strangulation usually fractures the hyoid", or some such.  It looks as though the author has become muddled.  Surely a flexible bone would be more difficult to fracture, so when a fracture is found in children, it is particularly indicative of strangulation, which is the opposite of what has been written. 
Is this intended: "Due to its position, the hyoid bone is not susceptible to easy fracture. In a suspected case of murder, a fractured hyoid strongly indicates throttling or strangulation in an adult. However, in children and adolescents, where the hyoid bone is still flexible as ossification is yet to be completed, strangulation is less likely to fracture the hyoid". G4OEP.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.37.54.83 (talk) 07:36, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, your second version is correct and more clear. HCA (talk) 13:48, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  The meaning of this is not clear. 

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