Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or located in the area of the zygoma: a zygomatic muscle.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In zoology and anatomy, of or pertaining to the malar or jugal bone, or this bone and its connections; constituting or entering into the formation of the zygoma; jugal.
- the zygomaticofacial, or malar, running between the orbital aud anterior surfaces;
- the zygomaticotemporal, or temporal, running between the orbital and temporal surfaces.
Wiktionary
- adj. Pertaining to the zygoma.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Anat.) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the zygoma.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to the cheek region of the face
- n. the arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek
Etymologies
- From French zygomatique, from Ancient Greek ζυγωματικός (zugōmatikos), from ζύγωμα (zugōma, "zygoma"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Instead, they will be compelled to offer the benefits prescribed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, which are guaranteed to be both one-size-fits-all and anything but "basic" after the government accommodates all the pleadings of special interests from acupuncture to zygomatic arch reconstruction.”
“Imagine having to have nine surgeries, including seven shoulder operations (complete tears of rotator cuffs, labrum tears), lower-back surgery for a slipped disk, fracture of zygomatic bone (under eye), a broken nose, three broken fingers, radial-nerve damage to the right forearm, a broken right toe, and a slipped disk in the neck.”
“Can I check his zygomatic, ethmoidal, and nasal bones?”
“Those depressed areas on the frontals and zygomatic processes have apparently evolved to allow particularly large temporalis and masseter muscles, the muscles involved in closing the jaw.”
“Response to Bill: I think you're referring to the slightly reflective area formed by the zygomatic area and nose.”
“The dorsal surfaces of the frontals (on the top of the skull) possess large depressions while the ventral surfaces of the zygomatic processes (the structures that project laterally from the cheek regions) are strongly concave, again unlike the condition in other mysticetes.”
“They go across your zygomatic processes -- er, cheek bones.”
The pink fluffy? Some Hello Kitty, some pre-grand Mal, another day.
“The orbits vary in width and height, the cranial ridge is either single or double, either much or little developed, and the zygomatic aperture varies considerably in size.”
“The external surface of the skull varies considerably in size, as do also the zygomatic aperture and the temporal muscle; but they bear no necessary relation to each other, a small muscle often existing with a large cranial surface, and ‘vice versa’.”
“Now, those skulls which have the largest and strongest jaws and the widest zygomatic aperture, have the muscles so large that they meet on the crown of the skull, and deposit the bony ridge which supports them, and which is the highest in that which has the smallest cranial surface.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘zygomatic’.
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come together
Origin: Gk zygÅ-, var. s. of zygoûn
to yoke,
join together
zygote, azygous, heterozygous, homozygous, zygomatic, zygoma, zygomorphic, zygodactyl, zygospore, hemiazygous, zygobranchiate, zygocactus and 3 more...
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Infinite Jest
Words taken from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
prorector, monograph, post-fourier, snuffle, rototremble, creatus, enfilade, subanimalistic, balletic, espadrilles, leonine, cirri and 1153 more...
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diplopic, dolorous, farrago, surety, scuttlebutt, Arabesque, infarct, neurasthenia, lambent, expurge, univocal, simper and 395 more...
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kevincooper's Words
prosopopeia, lisle, magisterial, zeitgeist, zeugma, bloviate, apocryphal, bon mot, cacophony, euphony, brigandier, micturition and 313 more...
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uncleosbert's Words
omphalaskepsis, gravid, steatopygian, marmalade, triffid, scurrilous, kith, lilliputian, slunk, snailular, milquetoast, elephantine and 191 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1408 more...
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Osteology
osteology, patella, trochanter, illia, interosseous, trochlea, olecranon fossa, epicondyle, epiphysis, glenoid, coracoid, acromion and 8 more...
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words that don't sound real
but they are
pleonastic, absquatulate, scalawag, esquivalience, tlingit, vogueress, sockdolager, versimilitude, zenzizenzizenzic, cloisonné, gemsbok, mugwump and 41 more...
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ossified
frontal, parietal, temporal, occipital, nasal, zygomatic, ethmoid, maxilla, sphenoid, mandible, cervical, thoracic and 22 more...
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Anthrolocution
Work-related words.. It can have anything to do with human anatomy, linguistics, academic social structures, or archaeological artefacts.
mastoid process, formative, bioarchaeology, external auditory..., zygomatic, squamous, osteology, core-periphery po..., hegemony, niche, epicondyle, iliac and 61 more...
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Medical Mayhem
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for zygomatic.
knitandpurl "But zygomatic muscles are sufficiently stretched, and gullets sufficiently sonorous, for us to be able to state that sympathy and cordiality reign."
Witch Grass by Raymond Queneau, translated by Barbara Wright, p 187 of the NYRB paperback Nov 7, 2010
anitaprentice From the novel, Exiles, by Ron Hansen, 2008, a fictional account of the life of the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins:
"Washing with Castile soap and icy water, he worried over his scrawniness, his spindle shins, the green yarns of vein in his forearms, his face so thin that his zygomatic bones and jaw shaped harps underneath his ginger-brown, one-inch beard and mustache." p 3 Jul 5, 2009