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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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Etymology of 'Zygomatic'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... nine adult male Orang-utans, collected by myself in Borneo, the skulls differed remarkably in size and proportions. The orbits varied in width and height, the cranial ridge was either single or double, either much or little developed, and the zygomatic aperture varied considerably in size. I noted particularly that these variations bore no necessary relation to each other, so that a large temporal muscle and zygomatic aperture might exist either with a large ...

— Darwinism (1889) • Alfred Russel Wallace

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