Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The zygomatic bone.
- noun The zygomatic arch.
- noun The zygomatic process.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The bony arch or arcade of the cheek, formed by the malar or jugal bone and its connections: socalled because it serves to connect bones of the face with those of the skull about the ear.
- noun The malar or jugal bone itself, without its connections.
- noun The cavity under the zygomatic process of the temporal bone; the zygomatic fossa.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The jugal, malar, or cheek bone.
- noun The zygomatic process of the temporal bone.
- noun The whole zygomatic arch.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun anatomy The
cheekbone .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the slender arch formed by the temporal process of the cheekbone that bridges to the zygomatic process of the temporal bone
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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You could see the compensation in the heavier malar bone and much more developed zygoma.
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You could see the compensation in the heavier malar bone and much more developed zygoma.
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You could see the compensation in the heavier malar bone and much more developed zygoma.
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You could see the compensation in the heavier malar bone and much more developed zygoma.
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_Entry_, immediately above zygoma; the bullet passed through the temporal fossa, fractured the neck of the mandible, traversed the mastoid process, and emerged at the lower margin of the hairy scalp, 1 inch from the median line.
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_Entry_ (Mauser), over the centre of the right zygoma; the bullet traversed the right orbit, nose, and left orbit.
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The temporal artery, as it ascends over the root of the zygoma, may be compressed effectually against this bony point.
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The bullet passed onwards through the base of the skull, crossing the external auditory meatus, fracturing the zygoma and probably the condyle of the mandible, and eventually lodged beneath the masseter muscle.
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Aperture of _entry_ (Mauser), just external to the centre of the right eyebrow; _exit_, above the centre of the right zygoma.
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_Entry_ behind left ear, just above posterior root of zygoma; gutter fracture; bullet retained within skull.
mollusque commented on the word zygoma
Citation at Botticellian.
June 13, 2009