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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of three bony processes that articulate with the zygomatic bone, especially the process from the temporal bone that articulates to form the zygomatic arch.
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- noun anatomy A
protrusion from the rest of the skull, most of it belonging to thezygomatic bone , but also contributed to by thefrontal bone ,maxilla andtemporal bone .
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- noun a slender process of the temporal bone that strengthens the zygomatic arch
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