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Hyoid vs Pyoid - What's the difference?

hyoid | pyoid |

As adjectives the difference between hyoid and pyoid

is that hyoid is shaped like a U, or like the letter upsilon; specifically, designating a bone or group of bones supporting the tongue while pyoid is resembling or relating to pus.

As a noun hyoid

is the hyoid bone.

hyoid

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Shaped like a U, or like the letter upsilon; specifically, designating a bone or group of bones supporting the tongue.
  • * 1969': The '''hyoid bone in her throat flutters as if discharging some subvocal rosary. — JG Ballard, ''The Atrocity Exhibition

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The hyoid bone.
  • * 1973': the vulture, relinquishing its title, surely in natural justice gave me a right to this femur, this curiously distorted '''hyoid ? — Patrick O'Brian, ''HMS Surprise

    • pyoid

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (medicine) Resembling or relating to pus.
    • (Webster 1913)