Jugular Process

The jugular process (lat. processus jugularus) is an unpaired process of the lateral side of the human neck. The jugular foramen is located on the human neck between the angle of the lower jaw and the anterior end of the sternocleidomastoid muscle. Supplied with a number of important arteries and nerves. It borders on the aryepiglottic process.

The jugular process consists of three parts:

- anterior (pars anterior), sublingual (subdigitarea), which protrudes under the hyoid bone; - middle (pars media), attached to the middle of the body of the hyoid bone;