omohyoid muscle in dogs

The omohyoid muscle is a muscle at the front of the neck that consists of two bellies separated by an intermediate tendon. It belongs to the group of infrahyoid muscles. [WP,unvetted]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the omohyoid muscle is

The omohyoid muscle is a muscle at the front of the neck that consists of two bellies separated by an intermediate tendon. It belongs to the group of infrahyoid muscles. [WP,unvetted]. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the omohyoid muscle is

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

What the omohyoid muscle connects to

The atlas records 3 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. a kind of hyoid muscle.

Supply and innervation

Innervation: spinal nerve.

Also called

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

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001108, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: hyoid muscle.
• Innervated by: spinal nerve.
• inserts into: hyoid bone.

Questions

Where is the omohyoid muscle?

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

What does the omohyoid muscle connect to?

A kind of: hyoid muscle.

Is the omohyoid 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.