suprahyoid muscle

A muscle in the region above the hyoid bone in the neck. The suprahyoid muscles include digastric, stylohyoid, geniohyoid, and mylohyoid. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the suprahyoid muscle is

A muscle in the region above the hyoid bone in the neck. The suprahyoid muscles include digastric, stylohyoid, geniohyoid, and mylohyoid. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the suprahyoid muscle is

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

What the suprahyoid muscle connects to

The atlas records 7 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of musculature of pharynx.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the suprahyoid muscle. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as musculi suprahyoidei, suprahyoid and suprahyoidala. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0008571, 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: digastric muscle group, geniohyoid muscle, mylohyoid muscle and stylohyoid muscle.

Questions

Where is the suprahyoid muscle?

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

What does the suprahyoid muscle connect to?

Part of: musculature of pharynx.

Is the suprahyoid 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.