urohyaladj.n.
/jʊərəʊˈhʌɪəl/ Comparative Anatomy.
A. adj.
Forming or relating to a median posterior process or part of the hyoid arch in fishes or birds.
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subopercular1834
supratemporal1834
urohyal1835
hyobranchial1848
preopercular1851
septomaxillary1868
amphicœlous1869
sphenotic1884
interhyal1885
tympanomalleal1891
the world > animals > birds > bones > [adjective] > of hyoid
thyro-hyoid1831
urohyal1835
thyro-hyal1854
1835 R. Owen in Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 345/1 The superior larynx [in birds]..rests upon the uro-hyal element of the os hyoides.
B. n.
The bone forming this.
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the world > animals > fish > parts of fish > [noun] > bones (various types of)
grate1481
pharyngeal1791
suboperculum1818
supratemporal1834
shackle-joint1837
mastoid1840
wrist1840
mastoid bone1841
subopercular1841
mesotympanic1846
suprascapula1846
hypobranchials1848
hypotympanic1848
urohyal1848
radius1854
epicentral1866
pterotic1866
mesocoracoid1868
supraclavicle1868
precoracoid1869
symplectic1870
hypural1871
mesopterygoid1871
post-temporal1871
postclavicle1872
brachial1873
urostyle1875
hypercoracoid1876
admaxillary1885
intercalarium1887
palatopterygoquadrate1888
subtectal1888
Weberian apparatus1889
Weberian ossicles1889
radial1890
supracleithrum1903
the world > animals > birds > bones > [noun] > hyoid or palatine
thyro-hyal1854
urohyal1888
transpalatine1891
1848 R. Owen On Archetype & Homologies Vertebr. Skeleton 69 In most others [sc. fishes] there is..another..bone, which expands vertically as it extends backwards, in the middle line, from the basihyals; this is the ‘urohyal’.
1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 93 A thin median bone, the basi-branchiostegal (= urohyal of Huxley).
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