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Zygomatic

noun
1.
The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.  Synonyms: cheekbone, jugal bone, malar, malar bone, os zygomaticum, zygomatic bone.



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"Zygomatic" Quotes from Famous Books



... often has feminine elegance, long and curly hair, and even in prison garb, a certain 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 words, a hooked ...
— A Plea for the Criminal • James Leslie Allan Kayll



Words linked to "Zygomatic" :   os, jugale, bone, zygoma, cheek, skull, jugal point



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