Ceratohyoid bone

Ceratohyoideum

  • Bone
  • Head
  • Paired: left and right
  • Horse

About the ceratohyoid bone of the horse

Ceratohyoid bone is a bone of the head (head), one on each side of the body. Its name in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria is Ceratohyoideum. You can turn it above, see it in place in the head of the horse, and open it inside the whole animal in Vetomica.

Terminology

English
Ceratohyoid bone
Latin (NAV)
Ceratohyoideum
Status
A valid term in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria

Questions about the ceratohyoid bone

What is the Latin name of the ceratohyoid bone?
In the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria, the ceratohyoid bone is called Ceratohyoideum.
Where is the ceratohyoid bone of the horse?
Ceratohyoid bone is a bone of the head (head), one on each side of the body.

See the ceratohyoid bone inside the whole horse.

Vetomica opens on this structure with every layer of the horse around it: peel back the skin and the muscles, cut a section through it, X-ray it, and practise naming it until you stop getting it wrong.

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