Stylohyoid ligament

Stylohyoid ligament
Muscles of the neck. Anterior view.
Details
From	styloid process (temporal)
To	hyoid bone
Identifiers
Latin	ligamentum stylohyoideum
TA	A03.1.01.003
FMA	71315
*Anatomical terminology* [edit on Wikidata]

In connection with the stylohyoideus muscle a ligamentous band, the stylohyoid ligament, may be described.

It is a fibrous cord, which is attached to the tip of the styloid process of the temporal bone and the lesser cornu (lesser horn) of the hyoid bone.

It frequently contains a little cartilage in its center, is often partially ossified (known as Eagle's Syndrome), and in many animals forms a distinct bone, the epihyal.

References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

Additional images

Ossified stylohyoid ligament or elongated styloid process

External links

Diagram at occup-med.com
Anatomy diagram: 25420.000-1 at Roche Lexicon - illustrated navigator, Elsevier

Fibrous joints of the human skull

Syndesmosis	Pterygospinous ligament Stylohyoid ligament

Sutures	Involving the frontal bone frontoethmoidal suture frontal suture coronal suture occipitomastoid lambdoid sagittal Involving the sphenoid bone sphenoethmoidal with frontal bone with parietal bone sphenosquamosal Involving the Petrous part of the temporal bone sphenopetrosal petrosquamous squamosal Facial: palatomaxillary suture Involving the zygomatic process with sphenoid bone with temporal bone with frontal bone

Mouth	Gomphosis Periodontal fiber Periodontium Dental alveolus Gingiva Cementum

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