Medically reviewed by Kashif J. Piracha, MD The hyoid bone is a small horseshoe-shaped bone located in the front of your neck ...

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 ...

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." ...

Lowe was reportedly “rambling” and said something about having a seizure and then finding his mother dead when he woke up.

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

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 ...