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Zygoma

noun
1.
The slender arch formed by the temporal process of the cheekbone that bridges to the zygomatic process of the temporal bone.  Synonyms: arcus zygomaticus, 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



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