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  2. Hyoid bone - Wikipedia

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    The hyoid bone (lingual bone or tongue-bone) (/ ˈ h aɪ ɔɪ d / [2] [3]) is a horseshoe-shaped bone situated in the anterior midline of the neck between the chin and the thyroid cartilage. At rest, it lies between the base of the mandible and the third cervical vertebra .

  3. Head and neck anatomy - Wikipedia

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    the cranium (8 bones: frontal, 2-parietal, occipital, 2-temporal, sphenoid, ethmoid), and; the facial bones (14 bones: 2-zygomatic, 2-maxillary, 2-palatine, 2-nasal, 2-lacrimal, vomer, 2-inferior conchae, mandible). The occipital bone joins with the atlas near the foramen magnum, a large hole at the base of the skull. The atlas joins with the ...

  4. Facial skeleton - Wikipedia

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    The facial skeleton comprises the facial bones that may attach to build a portion of the skull. [1] The remainder of the skull is the neurocranium.. In human anatomy and development, the facial skeleton is sometimes called the membranous viscerocranium, which comprises the mandible and dermatocranial elements that are not part of the braincase.

  5. Kiesselbach's plexus - Wikipedia

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    Little described the area as being "about half an inch ... from the lower edge of the middle of the column [septum]". [7] Kiesselbach's plexus is named after Wilhelm Kiesselbach (1839–1902), a German otolaryngologist who published a paper on the area in 1884. The area may be called Little's area, [4] Kiesselbach's area, or Kiesselbach's triangle.

  6. Throat - Wikipedia

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    The larynx contains vocal cords, the epiglottis (preventing food/liquid inhalation), and an area known as the subglottic larynx, in children it is the narrowest section of the upper part of the throat. [6] [7] The jugulum is a low part of the throat, located slightly above the breast. [8] The term jugulum is reflected both by the internal and ...

  7. Anterior triangle of the neck - Wikipedia

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    Midline of the neck from chin to the jugular notch Posterior boundary: The anterior margin of sternocleidomastoid: Superior boundary (base) The lower border of the body of the mandible, and a line extending from the angle of the mandible to the mastoid process

  8. Flu, pink eye, strep throat: A guide to the common illnesses ...

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    Tiny red spots on the roof of the mouth Swollen lymph nodes in the front of the neck Fisher says a good way to differentiate strep throat from a cold, COVID or the flu is that “it does not ...

  9. Adam's apple - Wikipedia

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    The area labeled "front" in each image is the Adam's Apple/Laryngeal Prominence. In a tracheal shave , superficial tissue at the front of the larynx is dissected and the general shape of the larynx's interior, along with the underlying vocal cords, are otherwise unaffected.