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 the function of swallowing and tongue ...

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A state autopsy determined that the Black man found hanging in an abandoned Alabama home died by suicide, according to the local sheriff ...

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A Renton man was arrested and charged with first-degree murder Thursday for allegedly killing his mother in her home.

It noted the absence of a hyoid bone, a bone in the throat that is crucial to determination of suicide by hanging. “The article/ligature rope used at the scene did not accompany the body for ...

A small screw or plate attaches the piece of bone to the lower jaw to hold the bone in place. In a hyoid suspension surgery, a surgeon moves the base of the tongue and elastic throat tissue called ...

But the report noted that the hyoid neck bone, which is sometimes fractured in deaths from hanging and strangulation, wasn't present when Shaker examined the body. Shaker's report said this made ...

But the report noted that the hyoid neck bone, which is sometimes fractured in deaths from hanging and strangulation, wasn’t present when Shaker examined the body. Shaker’s report said this made it ...