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An Unusual Finding of the Hyoid Bone
Raja Gnanadev1, Joe Iwanaga2, Marios Loukas3
1Miscellaneous, Seattle Science Foundation, Seattle, USA.
Abstract:
The hyoid contributes to many biomechanical processes including swallowing. Additionally, the hyoid bone has been studied for over a century in an effort to catalog and categorize many observed biometric differences. This has led to the hyoid being a major structure involved in forensic pathology. In this paper, we discuss a very unusual finding of an adult female hyoid bone.
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