stylohyoid muscle
The stylohyoid is a pharyngeal arch II muscle that participates in oral/pharygeal behaviors and is innervated by the stylohoid branch of the facial nerve and attaches to the stylohyal and the non-stylohyal part of the hyoid apparatus. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the stylohyoid muscle is
The stylohyoid is a pharyngeal arch II muscle that participates in oral/pharygeal behaviors and is innervated by the stylohoid branch of the facial nerve and attaches to the stylohyal and the non-stylohyal part of the hyoid apparatus. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the stylohyoid muscle is
It sits within the muscular system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.
What the stylohyoid muscle connects to
The atlas records 5 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. a kind of suprahyoid muscle.
Supply and innervation
Innervation: facial nerve and nerve to stylohyoid from facial nerve.
Also called
Also recorded as musculus stylohyoideus, stylohyoid, stylohyoideus, stylohyoideus muscle and stylohyoideus muscles. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0008712, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- A kind of: suprahyoid muscle.
- Innervated by: facial nerve and nerve to stylohyoid from facial nerve.
- inserts into: hyoid bone greater horn.
- originates from: styloid process of temporal bone.
Questions
Where is the stylohyoid muscle?
It sits within the muscular system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.
What does the stylohyoid muscle connect to?
A kind of: suprahyoid muscle.
Is the stylohyoid 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.