mylohyoid muscle

• mylohyoid, mylohyoideus

mylohyoid muscle (plural mylohyoid muscles)

1. (anatomy) A flat triangular muscle located above the anterior belly of the digastric muscle, that runs from the mandible to the hyoid bone and is joined at a median raphe to its fellow of the opposite side, forming a large part of the muscular floor of the oral cavity.

• “mylohyoid muscle”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “mylohyoid muscle”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.