omohyoid muscle

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 human body.

Where the omohyoid muscle is

It sits within the muscular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the omohyoid muscle connects to

The atlas records 4 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. a kind of infrahyoid muscle.

Supply and innervation

Innervation: ansa cervicalis and 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: infrahyoid muscle.
• Innervated by: ansa cervicalis and spinal nerve.
• inserts into: hyoid bone.

Questions

Where is the omohyoid muscle?

It sits within the muscular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the omohyoid muscle connect to?

A kind of: infrahyoid muscle.

Is the omohyoid 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.