infrahyoid muscle

The infrahyoid muscles are a group of four pairs of muscles in the anterior part of the neck. (The term infrahyoid refers to the region below to the hyoid bone in the neck. ) Collectively, they are referred to as the strap muscles, because the muscles are long and flat much like a strap. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the infrahyoid muscle is

The infrahyoid muscles are a group of four pairs of muscles in the anterior part of the neck. (The term infrahyoid refers to the region below to the hyoid bone in the neck. ) Collectively, they are referred to as the strap muscles, because the muscles are long and flat much like a strap. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the infrahyoid muscle is

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

What the infrahyoid muscle connects to

The atlas records 8 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of musculature of pharynx.

Supply and innervation

Innervation: ansa cervicalis.

Also called

Also recorded as musculus infrahyoideus, infrahyoid, infrahyoid muscle, infrahyoidala, musculi infrahyoidei and strap muscle, and 1 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0008523, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: musculature of pharynx.
• A kind of: anatomical structure and chordate pharyngeal muscle.
• subtype: omohyoid muscle, sternohyoid muscle, sternothyroid muscle and thyrohyoid muscle.
• Innervated by: ansa cervicalis.

Questions

Where is the infrahyoid muscle?

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

What does the infrahyoid muscle connect to?

Part of: musculature of pharynx.

Is the infrahyoid 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.