Hyoglossus Muscle wins Camby man $50000

Hyoglossus Muscle wins Camby man $50000 on quiz show Who wants to be a Millionaire. Tony Westmoreland, a Mailman from Camby walked away with $50,000 in winnings on Thursday’s episode of “Who wants to be a Millionaire. Tony used his “Phone A Friend” lifeline on the $50000 question, which was of Category, ‘Anatomy’. The question was:

Where is a person’s hyoglossus muscle?

The Hyoglossus, thin and quadrilateral, arises from the side of the body and from the whole length of the greater cornu of the hyoid bone, and passes almost vertically upward to enter the side of the tongue, between the Styloglossus and Longitudinalis inferior.

Structures passing medially to the hyoglossus muscle are the lingual vein and lingual artery. Laterally, in between the hyoglossus muscle and the mylohyoid muscle lay several important structures (from superior in inferior): submandibular gland, submandibular duct, lingual nerve, vena comitans of hypoglossal nerve, and the hypoglossal nerve. Note, posteriorly, the lingual nerve is superior to the submandibular duct and a portion of the submandibular salivary gland protrudes into the space between the hyoglossus and mylohyoid muscles.