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

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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 ...

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." ...

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 ...

Advertising 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 ...

She also said there had been extensive injuries to Ms Inglis' neck, including the fracture of the hyoid bone - a horseshoe-shaped bone in the middle of the neck. Dr Shearer said these injuries ...