mylohyoid muscle in dogs

The mylohyoid is a pharyngeal arch I muscle that participates in oral/pharyngeal behaviors and is innervated by the nerve to mylohyoid and attaches to the midline raphe linking right and left mylohyoid and the mandible. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the mylohyoid muscle is

The mylohyoid is a pharyngeal arch I muscle that participates in oral/pharyngeal behaviors and is innervated by the nerve to mylohyoid and attaches to the midline raphe linking right and left mylohyoid and the mandible. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the mylohyoid muscle is

It sits within the muscular system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What the mylohyoid muscle connects to

The atlas records 5 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. a kind of hyoid muscle and muscle organ.

Supply and innervation

Innervation: mandibular nerve.

Also called

Also recorded as musculus mylohyoideus, mylohyoid, mylohyoideus and mylohyoideus muscle. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001564, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: hyoid muscle and muscle organ.
• Develops from: mesoderm.
• Innervated by: mandibular nerve.
• inserts into: hyoid bone body.

Questions

Where is the mylohyoid muscle?

It sits within the muscular system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What does the mylohyoid muscle connect to?

A kind of: hyoid muscle and muscle organ.

Is the mylohyoid muscle the same in other species?

This page describes the dog. The human record of the same structure sits beside it on /compare, over one shared model rather than two atlases built separately.