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mylohyoid, a. and n.|maɪləʊˈhaɪɔɪd|
(Earlier in L. form ‖ mylohyoideus.)
[ad. mod.L. mylohyoīd-eus (Riolanus), f. Gr. µύλη, -ος (see prec.) + ὑοειδής hyoid.]
a. adj. Connected with the lower jaw and the hyoid bone; esp. mylohyoid muscle, a flat triangular muscle forming a large part of the muscular floor of the mouth. Also mylohyoiˈdean a.
b. n. The mylohyoid muscle.
1694W. Cowper Myotomia Ref. 76 Mylohyoideus. Though Falloppius and his Followers make this a Pair of Muscles, It seems not to be divisible without apparent Violence. 1804Abernethy Surg. Obs. (1827) 35 The mylohyoideus muscle. 1838E. Wilson Anat. Vade M. 220 The Inferior dental nerve..gives off but one branch, the mylo-hyoidean. Ibid., The external surface of the mylo-hyoid muscle. 1840Owen in Zool. Voy. Beagle I. 72 The mylo⁓hyoid ridge. 1843Wilkinson tr. Swedenborg's Anim. Kingd. I. i. 20 The mylo-hyoideus arises broad but thin from the base of the lower jaw. 1866Proc. R. Irish Acad. IX. 460 Inseparably connected to the mylohyoid of its own side. 1891Syd. Soc. Lex., Mylohyoïdean ridge. |