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To: sandbar
I didn't know we had a tongue bone?

Here's the hyoid in a human:


45 posted on 09/20/2006 11:23:01 AM PDT by MineralMan
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To: MineralMan

Yes the base of the tongue is attached to it. And it is basically a freestanding bone it doesn't articulate with any other bone but is suspended by cartilage. I got a "B" in Anatomy and Physiology last semester.


70 posted on 09/20/2006 1:21:15 PM PDT by brwnsuga
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