Usually means: Supports neck, lowers hyoid bone.
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General (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. omohyoid muscle: Dictionary.com
  2. Omohyoid muscle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  3. Omohyoid muscle: TheFreeDictionary.com
  4. omohyoid muscle: Wiktionary

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  1. Omohyoid muscle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. omohyoid muscle: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  5. Omohyoid muscle: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  6. Omohyoid muscle: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (omohyoid muscle)

noun:  (anatomy) A long slender digastric muscle which arises from the upper border of the shoulder blade and passes obliquely along the side and front of the neck to the lower border of the body of the hyoid bone, and acts to draw the hyoid bone in a caudal direction.

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