epihyal

English

Etymology

From epi- +‎ -hyal, from Ancient Greek ὖ (û, “the letter upsilon”).

Adjective

epihyal (not comparable)

  1. Related to the segment located above the ceratohyal of the hyoid arch.

Noun

epihyal (plural epihyals)

  1. (anatomy) A segment immediately above the ceratohyal in the hyoid arch.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “epihyal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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