Thyrohyoid bone
Thyrohyoideum
The caudal branch of the hyoid apparatus, running back from the body of the hyoid to the thyroid cartilage of the larynx.
About the thyrohyoid bone of the cat
Thyrohyoid bone is a bone of the head (head), one on each side of the body. Its name in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria is Thyrohyoideum. 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 thyrohyoid 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 hyoideum14%
Measured on the left side.
Terminology
- English
- Thyrohyoid bone
- Latin (NAV)
- Thyrohyoideum
- Status
- A valid term in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria
Questions about the thyrohyoid bone
- What is the Latin name of the thyrohyoid bone?
- In the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria, the thyrohyoid bone is called Thyrohyoideum.
- Where is the thyrohyoid bone of the cat?
- Thyrohyoid bone is a bone of the head (head), one on each side of the body.
See the thyrohyoid 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.
