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Tongue bone is...

Tongue bone is

A

Hyoid bone

B

Maxillary

C

Dentary

D

Quadrato-jugal

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The hyoid bone is a horseshoe shaped bone situated in the anterior midline of the neck between the chin and the thyroid cartilage. At rest, it lies at the level of the base of the mandible in the front and the third cervical vertebra behind
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