hyoglossus muscle

A muscle that attaches to the hyopid bone and to the tongue and is innervated by cranial nerve XII. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the hyoglossus muscle is

A muscle that attaches to the hyopid bone and to the tongue and is innervated by cranial nerve XII. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the hyoglossus muscle is

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

What the hyoglossus muscle connects to

The atlas records 8 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. a kind of extrinsic muscle of tongue.

Supply and innervation

Innervation: hypoglossal nerve.

Also called

Also recorded as hyoglossus and m. hyoglossus. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001572, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: extrinsic muscle of tongue.
• Attaches to: hyoid bone and tongue.
• contains: ceratoglossus and chondroglossus muscle.
• Innervated by: hypoglossal nerve.
• inserts into: tongue.
• originates from: hyoid bone.

Questions

Where is the hyoglossus muscle?

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

What does the hyoglossus muscle connect to?

A kind of: extrinsic muscle of tongue.

Is the hyoglossus muscle the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.