Usually means: Muscle connecting chin to hyoid.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. geniohyoid: Wordnik
  2. geniohyoid: Wiktionary
  3. geniohyoid: Dictionary.com
  4. Geniohyoid: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. Geniohyoid: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. geniohyoid: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Geniohyoid: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. geniohyoid: FreeDictionary.org
  9. geniohyoid: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. geniohyoid: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  4. geniohyoid: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (geniohyoid)

adjective:  (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the chin and hyoid bone.
adjective:  (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the geniohyoid muscle.
noun:  (anatomy) Ellipsis of geniohyoid muscle.. [(anatomy) A narrow muscle situated superior to the medial border of the mylohyoid muscle; it originates from the inferior mental spine on the inner side of the symphysis of the lower jaw, inserts onto the body of the hyoid bone, and acts to raise and draw the hyoid bone forwards and to retract and depress the jaw.]

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