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zygoma

[ UK /za‍ɪɡˈə‍ʊmɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the slender arch formed by the temporal process of the cheekbone that bridges to the zygomatic process of the temporal bone

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  • Surely hard biting is sufficiently appreciable by the person bitten without any visual admeasurement of the masseter muscles or the zygomatic arches. Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin
  • Along the way he identified a particular type of smile that engages both the zygomatic major and the orbicularis oculi — muscles that raise the corners of the mouth and cheeks, respectively.
  • _Entry_ (Mauser), over the centre of the right zygoma; the bullet traversed the right orbit, nose, and left orbit. Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre
  • The jaw-bone, in few cases, is completely dislocated, for the zygomatic process formed from the upper jaw-bone (malar?) and the bone behind the ear (temporal?) shuts up the heads of the under jaw, being above the one (condyloid process?), and below the other On The Articulations
  • The zygomatic arch looks right, but the anterior portion is mostly maxilla, rather than jugal.
  • When our smiles are false, the corners of the mouth are drawn toward the ears by the zygomaticus major, which stretches from the corner of the mouth to the cheekbone. Undefined
  • Another method of defining the Sylvian point is to divide the distance between the nasion and inion into four equal parts; from the junction of the third and fourth parts (reckoning from the front) draw a line to the frontozygomatic suture; from the junction of the first and second parts a line to the auricular point. XII. Surface Anatomy and Surface Markings. 2. Surface Markings of Special Regions of the Head and Neck
  • A zygomatic bone may also be tripartite, possessing extra sutures and accessory bones.
  • An enlarged hamulus may articulate with the maxillary process of the zygomatic bone.
  • Using the endoscope through the small lateral incision, the surgeon dissects the entire cheek from the orbital run over to the nose, down to the top of the mouth out to the side over the zygoma so the whole cheek can be freed and moved up.
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