Fig. 2. Hyoid bone displacement. (A) Distance between the mandible and the hyoid bone at rest, (B) during swallowing. White arrow, shadow behind the mandible; black arrow, shadow behind the hyoid bone; asterisk, suprahyoid muscles.
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