title: [Morphology of the adult human hyoid bone].
abstract: Investigations on 504 human hyoid bones show that there exist three main types, whose occurrence is, to a certain degree, sex-related. The junction between the body and the larger horns of the hyoid often is not ossified even in advanced age. Any determination of age on the basis of the extent of the corpus-cornu maius-ossification is most unreliable.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000365:Age Determination by Skeleton; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006928:Hyoid Bone / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012737:Sex Factors
vernacular_title: Zur Morphologie des adulten menschlichen Zungenbeins.