hyoglossus

Borrowed from New Latin hyoglōssus, clipping of musculus hyoglōssus (“hyoglossal muscle”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌhaɪ.oʊˈɡlɑs.əs/, /ˌhaɪ.oʊˈɡlɔs.əs/
• Rhymes: -ɒsəs, -ɔːsəs

hyoglossus (plural hyoglossi)

1. (anatomy) A flat muscle on either side of the tongue, connecting it with the body and the thyrohyal of the hyoid bone.
   • 1895, Edmond Souchon, Resume of Lectures on Anatomy, page 10:

     The Muscles of the Tongue are: the Genio-hyoglossus, which is the protruder; — the Hyoglossus, which is the depressor or retractor, or muscle which draws the tongue in; […]

• “hyoglossus”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

From hyoīdēs (“U-shaped”) +‎ Ancient Greek γλῶσσᾰ (glôssa, “the tongue”) +‎ -us (adjectival suffix).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /hy.oˈɡloːs.sus/, [hyɔˈɡɫ̪oːs̠ːʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /i.oˈɡlos.sus/, [ioˈɡlɔsːus]

hyoglōssus (feminine hyoglōssa, neuter hyoglōssum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (anatomy) Of or relating to the hyoid bone and the tongue.

   musculus hyoglōssus ― the hyoglossus muscle

First/second-declension adjective.

• → English: hyoglossus