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  • noun Plural form of zygoma.

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  • The temporal fossa are deep, the bones are salient, and the elevated zygomata combined with the

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

  • No. 1 gashes a line from the root of the hair to the commissure of the nose: No. 2 has a patch of cuts, five in length and three in depth, extending from the bend of the eye - brow across the zygomata to the ear, and No. 3 wears cuts across the forehead.

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855

  • a patch of cuts, five in length and three in depth, extending from the bend of the eye-brow across the zygomata to the ear, and No. 3 wears cuts across the forehead.

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

  • Molars as in the _Muridae_ generally, but much worn in the specimen under examination; they are considerably less directed outward than usual, and the bony palate has therefore the appearance of being narrow; the superorbital ridges project much outward in form of a thin bony plate, and there is a considerable process at the base of the zygoma anteriorly and posteriorly to the anti-orbital foramen; zygomata broad, and compressed about the middle. "

    Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

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