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Zygoma   Listen
noun
Zygoma  n.  (Anat.)
(a)
The jugal, malar, or cheek bone.
(b)
The zygomatic process of the temporal bone.
(c)
The whole zygomatic arch.





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"Zygoma" Quotes from Famous Books



... skull roof above the temporal opening. But in Captorhinus the masseter arose from the lower part of the cheek close to the outer surface of the coronoid process. Watson has shown (1948:860, Fig. 17B) the same relationship of muscle to zygoma in Kannemeyeria sp. It is this arrangement that is also characteristic of mammals and presumably of Thrinaxodon. In view of the consistency of this pattern, I have reconstructed the masseter as arising from the lower wall of the cheek beneath ...
— The Adductor Muscles of the Jaw In Some Primitive Reptiles • Richard C. Fox


Words linked to "Zygoma" :   zygomatic, bone, jugal bone, malar, os, zygomatic bone, arcus zygomaticus, malar bone, os zygomaticum, cheekbone, zygomatic arch


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