Crossword-Solution: HYOIDAL 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Bone.—Small smooth bits of the dried hyoidal bone of a fowl moistened with saliva were placed on two leaves, and a similarly moistened splinter of an extremely hard, broiled mutton-chop bone on a third leaf.

The corpuscles with their processes were very distinct in most parts; but in some parts, especially near the periphery of the hyoidal bone, none could be seen.

Our guides assured us gravely, that, to cure an asthma, it is sufficient to drink out of the bony drum of the hyoidal bone of the araguato.

The crocodile, owing to the structure of its larynx, of the hyoidal bone, and of the folds of its tongue, can seize, though not swallow, its prey under water; thus when a man disappears, the animal is usually perceived some hours after devouring its prey on a neighbouring beach.

And yet all this is often the product of a single _mycetes_, or howling monkey, whose hollow hyoidal bone enables him to-- send forth every species of sound, from the rolling of a bass drum to the sharp squeak of a penny-whistle.