Group · Muscular system
Infrahyoid muscles
Musculi infrahyoidei
- System
- Muscular system
- Regions
- Neck, Trunk
- Part of
- Muscles of neck
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The infrahyoid muscles, or strap muscles, are a group of four pairs of muscles in the anterior (frontal) part of the neck.
The four infrahyoid muscles are the sternohyoid, sternothyroid, thyrohyoid and omohyoid muscles.
Excluding the sternothyroid, the infrahyoid muscles either originate from or insert on to the hyoid bone.
The term infrahyoid refers to the region below the hyoid bone, while the term strap muscles refers to the long and flat muscle shapes which resembles a strap.
The stylopharyngeus muscle is considered by many to be one of the strap muscles, but is not an infrahyoid muscle.
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Muscle attachments
Origin
Insertion
Parts
Names
- Latin
- Musculi infrahyoidei
- English
- Infrahyoid muscles
- French
- Muscles infrahyoïdiens
- Spanish
- Músculos infrahioideos
- Portuguese
- Músculos infrahióideos