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Zygomatic  adj.  (Anat.) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the zygoma.
Zygomatic arch, 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.
Zygomatic process, a process of the temporal or squamosal bone helping to form the zygomatic arch.






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"Zygomatic" Quotes from Famous Books



... portions of the temporal bones; and he remarks the peculiar situation and shape of the sphenoid bone. Of the ethmoid, which he omits at first, he afterwards speaks more at large in another treatise. The malar he notices under the name of zygomatic bone; and he describes at length the upper maxillary and nasal bones, and the connexion of the former with the sphenoid. He gives the first clear account of the number and situation of the vertebrae, which he divides into cervical, ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... feminine figure, delicate skin, childish look, and abundance of glossy hair parted in the middle. Burglars who break into houses have as a rule woolly hair, deformed cranium, powerful jaws, and enormous zygomatic arches, are covered with scars on the head and trunk, and are often tatooed. Habitual homicides have a glassy, cold, immobile, sometimes sanguinary and dejected look; often an aquiline nose, or, in other ...
— A Plea for the Criminal • James Leslie Allan Kayll

... of the levator labii superioris alaeque nasi, the levator labii proprius, the malaris, and the zygomaticus minor, or little zygomatic. This latter muscle runs parallel to and above the great zygomatic, and is attached to the outer part of the upper lip. It is represented in fig. 2 (I. p. 24), but not in figs. 1 and 3. Dr. Duchenne first showed ('Mecanisme de la ...
— The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals • Charles Darwin



Words linked to "Zygomatic" :   jugal bone, os zygomaticum, skull, jugale, cheek, malar bone, arcus zygomaticus, cheekbone, os, malar, zygomatic arch, jugal point, zygoma, zygomatic process, bone, zygomatic bone



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