Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In zoology and anatomy, of or pertaining to the malar or jugal bone, or this bone and its connections; constituting or entering into the formation of the zygoma; jugal.
- the zygomaticofacial, or malar, running between the orbital aud anterior surfaces;
- the zygomaticotemporal, or temporal, running between the orbital and temporal surfaces.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the zygoma.
- adjective the arch of bone beneath the orbit, formed in most mammals by the union of the malar, or jugal, with the zygomatic process of the temporal bone. In the lower vertebrates other bones may help to form it, and there may be two arches on each side of the skull, as in some reptiles.
- adjective a process of the temporal or squamosal bone helping to form the zygomatic arch.
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- adjective Pertaining to the
zygoma .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to the cheek region of the face
- noun the arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek
Etymologies
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Examples
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Instead, they will be compelled to offer the benefits prescribed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, which are guaranteed to be both one-size-fits-all and anything but "basic" after the government accommodates all the pleadings of special interests from acupuncture to zygomatic arch reconstruction.
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Imagine having to have nine surgeries, including seven shoulder operations (complete tears of rotator cuffs, labrum tears), lower-back surgery for a slipped disk, fracture of zygomatic bone (under eye), a broken nose, three broken fingers, radial-nerve damage to the right forearm, a broken right toe, and a slipped disk in the neck.
Gladiator Dan Clark 2009
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Imagine having to have nine surgeries, including seven shoulder operations (complete tears of rotator cuffs, labrum tears), lower-back surgery for a slipped disk, fracture of zygomatic bone (under eye), a broken nose, three broken fingers, radial-nerve damage to the right forearm, a broken right toe, and a slipped disk in the neck.
Gladiator Dan Clark 2009
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Those depressed areas on the frontals and zygomatic processes have apparently evolved to allow particularly large temporalis and masseter muscles, the muscles involved in closing the jaw.
From cigar to elongated, bloated tadpole: rorquals part II Darren Naish 2006
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The dorsal surfaces of the frontals (on the top of the skull) possess large depressions while the ventral surfaces of the zygomatic processes (the structures that project laterally from the cheek regions) are strongly concave, again unlike the condition in other mysticetes.
From cigar to elongated, bloated tadpole: rorquals part II Darren Naish 2006
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Can I check his zygomatic, ethmoidal, and nasal bones?
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Those depressed areas on the frontals and zygomatic processes have apparently evolved to allow particularly large temporalis and masseter muscles, the muscles involved in closing the jaw.
Archive 2006-10-01 Darren Naish 2006
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They go across your zygomatic processes -- er, cheek bones.
The pink fluffy? Some Hello Kitty, some pre-grand Mal, another day. Elizabeth McClung 2008
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Response to Bill: I think you're referring to the slightly reflective area formed by the zygomatic area and nose.
Frame 352, and all that Darren Naish 2006
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The dorsal surfaces of the frontals (on the top of the skull) possess large depressions while the ventral surfaces of the zygomatic processes (the structures that project laterally from the cheek regions) are strongly concave, again unlike the condition in other mysticetes.
Archive 2006-10-01 Darren Naish 2006
anitaprentice commented on the word zygomatic
From the novel, Exiles, by Ron Hansen, 2008, a fictional account of the life of the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins:
"Washing with Castile soap and icy water, he worried over his scrawniness, his spindle shins, the green yarns of vein in his forearms, his face so thin that his zygomatic bones and jaw shaped harps underneath his ginger-brown, one-inch beard and mustache." p 3
July 5, 2009
knitandpurl commented on the word zygomatic
"But zygomatic muscles are sufficiently stretched, and gullets sufficiently sonorous, for us to be able to state that sympathy and cordiality reign."
Witch Grass by Raymond Queneau, translated by Barbara Wright, p 187 of the NYRB paperback
November 7, 2010