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- New Latin · borrowed fromsternohȳoīdēs
- English todaysternohyoid
Borrowed from New Latin sternohȳoīdēs, from sternum (“the breastbone”) + -o- + hȳoīdēs (“U-shaped”); equivalent to sterno- + hyoid. Doublet of sternohyoideus.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.