Medically reviewed by Kashif J. Piracha, MD The hyoid bone is a small horseshoe-shaped bone located in the front of your neck. It sits between the chin and the thyroid cartilage and is instrumental in ...

By Kristin Holtz, Correspondent The fatal blow that kept Ruth Anne Maddox from breathing could have been caused by the master bedroom door, a medical examiner said in Scott County District Court ...

The paper, by C.-F. Zhou at Shenyang Normal University in Shenyang, China, and colleagues was titled, "New Jurassic mammaliaform sheds light on early evolution of mammal-like hyoid bones." ...

An autopsy conducted Wednesday revealed Files had a broken hyoid bone, broken ribs, and a broken sternum. The medical examiner determined her death was a homicide caused by smothering and manual ...