An overworked surgical resident is resecting an acinic cell carcinoma from the inferior aspect of the parotid gland when he makes a careless incision and nicks a branch of the facial (seventh cranial) nerve. Which of the following muscles may be affected by this injury?
(A) omohyoid
(B) sternohyoid
© sternothyroid
(D) stylohyoid
(E) thyrohyoid