Infrahyoid muscles

As Musculi infrahyoidei (Latin for "Under hyoid muscles " ) summarizes one of the following four skeletal muscles:

  • Musculus sternohyoideus
  • Musculus omohyoideus
  • Musculus sternothyroideus
  • Thyrohyoid muscle

The Musculi infrahyoidei function is, inter alia, the hyoid bone downward ( caudal ) to draw and to draw the sternum and the shoulder girdle upward ( accessory muscles in breathing and swallowing).

Swell

  • Herbert Lippert: textbook anatomy Urban & Fischer, 6th Edition 2003 ( ISBN 3-437-42361-4 )
  • Skeletal muscle of the neck
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