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Sternohyoid
A thin, narrow muscle attaching the hyoid bone to the sternum, one of the paired strap muscles of the infrahyoid muscles serving to depress the hyoid bone. It sometimes presents, immediately above its origin, a transverse tendinous inscription.
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