Sternohyoid muscle

Sternohyoid muscle
Muscles of neck. Sternohyoideus labeled at middle, just to the right of thyroid cartilage.
Muscles of the neck. Lateral view. Sternohyoid muscle labeled
Details
Origin	manubrium of sternum
Insertion	hyoid bone
Artery	superior thyroid artery
Nerve	C1-C3 by a branch of ansa cervicalis
Actions	depresses hyoid
Identifiers
Latin	musculus sternohyoideus
Dorlands /Elsevier	m_22/12550951
TA	A04.2.04.002
FMA	13341
*Anatomical terms of muscle* [edit on Wikidata]

The sternohyoid muscle is 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 is innervated by the ansa cervicalis.

The muscle arises from the posterior border of the medial end of the clavicle, the posterior sternoclavicular ligament, and the upper and posterior part of the manubrium sterni.

Passing upward and medially, it is inserted by short tendinous fibers into the lower border of the body of the hyoid bone.

Variations

Doubling; accessory slips (Cleidohyoideus); absence.

It sometimes presents, immediately above its origin, a transverse tendinous inscription.

Additional images

Posterior surface of sternum.
Left clavicle. Inferior surface.
Hyoid bone. Anterior surface. Enlarged.
Section of the neck at about the level of the sixth cervical vertebra.
Posterior surface of sternum and costal cartilages, showing Transversus thoracis.
The fascia and middle thyroid veins. The veins here designated the inferior thyroid are called by Kocher the thyroidea ima.
Sternohyoid muscle
Sternohyoid muscle
Sternohyoid muscle
Sternohyoid muscle - lateral view
Sternohyoid muscle - right view
Sternohyoid muscle
Muscles, nerves and arteries of neck.Deep dissection. Anterior view.

References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

External links

Anatomy photo:25:10-0103 at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center - "Nerves and Vessels of the Carotid triangle"
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Muscles of the neck

Cervical	Platysma Sternocleidomastoid Longus capitis Longus colli Scalene anterior middle posterior Rectus capitis anterior muscle Rectus capitis lateralis muscle

Suboccipital	Rectus capitis posterior major minor Obliquus capitis inferior superior

Suprahyoid	Mylohyoid Stylohyoid Digastric Geniohyoid

Infrahyoid	Thyrohyoid Sternohyoid Sternothyroid Omohyoid

Pharynx	Pharyngeal constrictor superior middle inferior Stylopharyngeus Salpingopharyngeus

Larynx	Cricothyroid Cricoarytenoid posterior lateral Arytenoid oblique arytenoid aryepiglottic transverse arytenoid Thyroarytenoid vocal thyroepiglottic

Trachea	Trachealis

Fasciae	Deep cervical fascia Pretracheal fascia Prevertebral fascia Investing layer Carotid sheath Alar fascia Palatine aponeurosis Buccopharyngeal fascia Pharyngobasilar fascia Pharyngeal raphe

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