Basihyoid bone
Basihyoideum
About the basihyoid bone of the cat
Basihyoid bone is a bone of the head (head), a single structure on the midline. Its name in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria is Basihyoideum. You can turn it above, see it in place in the head of the cat, and open it inside the whole animal in Vetomica.
Measured on the specimen
What the basihyoid bone is in contact with in the model itself, with the share of the other structure’s surface it covers. A contact is not always a joint: bones that simply lie against one another are in this list too.
- Os thyrohyoideum25%
Measured on the left side.
Terminology
- English
- Basihyoid bone
- Latin (NAV)
- Basihyoideum
- Status
- A valid term in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria
Questions about the basihyoid bone
- What is the Latin name of the basihyoid bone?
- In the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria, the basihyoid bone is called Basihyoideum.
- Where is the basihyoid bone of the cat?
- Basihyoid bone is a bone of the head (head), a single structure on the midline.
See the basihyoid bone inside the whole cat.
Vetomica opens on this structure with every layer of the cat 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.
Free for 7 days, no card. After that the skeletons stay free.
