Sternothyroid muscle

Muscles · Latin: Musculus sternothyreoideus

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The sternothyroid muscle, or sternothyroideus, is an infrahyoid muscle in the neck.

It acts to depress the hyoid bone.

It is below the sternohyoid muscle.

It is shorter and wider than the sternohyoid.

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