omohyoidadj.n.
/əʊməʊˈhʌɪɔɪd/, U.S. /ˌoʊmoʊˈhaɪˌɔɪd/ Anatomy and Zoology.
A. adj.
Designating a long slender digastric muscle which arises from the upper border of the shoulder blade and passes obliquely along the side and front of the neck to the lower border of the hyoid bone.
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sternomastic1745
sternomastoid1835
omohyoid1840
trachelomastoid1840
omohyoideous1855
omohyoidean1857
tracheloclavicular1891
trachelo-occipital1891
trapezial1891
1840 G. V. Ellis Demonstr. Anat. 116 Detach the process of fascia from the omo-hyoid muscle.
1888 Proc. Royal Soc. 44 273 The sterno-hyoid, sterno-thyroid, and omo-hyoid muscles are all set in action by excitation of the Ist and IInd cervical muscles.
1937 Amer. Midland Naturalist 18 398 Laterally it [sc. the heart] was bounded by the omohyoid muscle and its aponeurosis.
1989 Nature 27 Apr. 758/2 The ventral surface of the body presents..two less marked latero-inferior fossae for the omohyoid muscle.
B. n.
The omohyoid muscle.
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gullet-lurker1615
monkshood1615
rhomboides1615
platysma1684
scalenus1704
trapezius muscle1704
trigeminus1706
rhomboid muscle1732
splenius1732
rhomboideus1754
omohyoideus1793
rhomboid1801
sternocleidomastoid1807
scalene muscle1827
complexus1828
omohyoid1846
omothyroid1890
traps1956
scalene1978
1846 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 136 547 (caption) Omo-hyoid in the Monkey.
1876 Trans. Clin. Soc. 9 121 Ligature of left common carotid, above the omo-hyoid.
1937 Q. Rev. Biol. 12 450/1 The omohyoid is present in Marsupialia, Chiroptera, Primates..and Perissodactyla.
1980 Gray's Anat. (ed. 36) v. 54/1 The omohyoid depresses the hyoid bone after it has been elevated.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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