Mylohyoid muscle

Musculus mylohyoideus

Raises the floor of the mouth and thus brings the hyoid forward.

Where it runs from and to

A muscle is told apart from its neighbours by what it takes hold of at each end, which is also what decides what it does when it shortens.

Origin: from the middle of the medial surface of the body of the mandible between the caudal opening of the mandibular canal and the symphysis of the jaw. Fig. 67 .—Muscles of Tongue, Hyoid Bone, and Pharynx. a , M. tragicus lateralis; b , M. jugulohyoideus; c , M.
Insertion: with the opposite muscle into a median raphe which extends from the symphysis of the jaw to the hyoid bone and is closely united to the external surface of the geniohyoid. Some of the fibres gain.
Action: Raises the floor of the mouth and thus brings the hyoid forward.
Nerve: Mylohyoid branch of the mandibular nerve.

Written for Vetomica in its own words from the standard reference anatomy of the cat; the books it was checked against are listed below.