An ancient bone belonging to a Neanderthal may change the way we think our human ancestors communicated. Tests performed on a 60,000 year-old Neanderthal hyoid bone show that the bone is ...

Abstract: Swallowing, or deglutition, is simple and smooth process to transport food and drink from the mouth to the stomach, whereas it is difficult to understand its physiological mechanism because ...

The hyoid bone is a U-shaped bone situated at the midline of the neck. During post-mortem, hyoid bone fractures are of medicolegal importance in distinguishing ...

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Some of our bones are easy to see. The zygomatic bones that give our cheeks shape, the delicate phalanges of our fingers, and the bony bulbs that are our kneecaps all stand out from beneath the flesh.

Introduction: Horses with hyoid bone disease may present with clinical symptoms such as exercise intolerance, resistance to ridden work, anorexia, or headshaking. This study aims to describe the ...

On Wednesday morning, the Washington Post reported that two people with knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein’s autopsy said that it showed his hyoid bone had broken when he reportedly died by suicide in ...

Osteochondroma is a benign cartilaginous neoplasm and the most common benign tumor of bone. Osteochondromas occur primarily in the axial skeleton with a predilection for the distal femur, and ...

The investigation into disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein's death could hinge on a minute bone in his neck that in the past has shed light on whether a cause of death is a suicide or a murder.