mylohyoidadj.n.

1838 E. Wilson Anatomist's Vade Mecum 220 The external surface of the mylo-hyoid muscle.

1877 Jrnl. Anat. & Physiol. 11 722 The position of the nerve supplying the mylohyoid muscle is..very favourable for experimentation.

1907 Science 29 Mar. 491/2 Fluids and semifluids are squirted down from the mouth to the cardia by the force of the contraction of the mylohyoid muscles.

1939 T. L. Green Pract. Animal Biol. i. 178 The sublingual glands lie in the floor of the mouth and are exposed by severing the mylohyoid muscle in the median line and reflecting the two flaps of muscle.

1986 A. S. Romer & T. S. Parsons Vertebr. Body (ed. 6) ix. 311 In tetrapods, the ventral fibers continue to form a thin sheet between the lower jaws as the mylohyoid muscle.

1839 R. Owen in C. Darwin Zool. Voy. H.M.S. Beagle i. No. 3. 72 The mylo-hyoid ridge is distinctly marked about an inch and a half below the alveolar margin.

1872 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 1 239 The mylohyoid notch is deep.

1888 Amer. Naturalist 22 75 All..are characterized by a groove extending along the inner face of the mandible..which Owen has called the mylohyoid groove, from its possible homology with a similar groove in the human jaw.

1903 Science 20 Nov. 668/1 Dr. B. Arthur Bensley..demonstrates that the groove on the inner side of the jaw of the Jurassic mammalia erroneously described by Owen and Osborn as a ‘mylohyoid groove’ is actually a ‘meckelian groove’, lodging the Meckelian cartilage.

1920 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 50 283 The mandibles are remarkable for..the prominence of the mylohyoid ridge on the internal aspect of the horizontal rami.

1992 Internat. Jrnl. Oral & Maxillofacial Surg. 21 309 Stretching of the muscle elicited electrical responses from the branch of the mylohyoid nerve innervating the mylohyoid muscle.

1844 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 134 300 It is covered by the sterno-hyoid or sterno-maxillary muscle, and also by the mylo-hyoid and genio-hyoid, when these are present.

1867 Proc. Royal Irish Acad. 1864–6 9 460 Inseparably connected to the mylohyoid of its own side.

1881 Proc. Royal Soc. 32 32 The mylo-hyoids are entirely absent.

1922 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 93 393 Gaskell..observed the effect of lactic acid on the curarised mylo-hyoid of the frog.

1955 R. Macintosh & M. Ostlere Local Analgesia Head & Neck i. 18 Just before entering the mandibular foramen the inferior dental nerve gives off the only motor branch of the posterior division—the nerve to the mylohyoid.

1971 Language 47 240 Extrinsic muscles of the tongue..as well as supra-hyoid muscles like the mylohyoid, are instrumental in the production of velar consonants.

1994 Amer. Jrnl. Physical Anthropol. 94 549 The recruitment patterns of the anterior digastric suggest that it is functionally allied to the geniohyoid and mylohyoid.