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Zygomatic   Listen
Zygomatic

adjective
1.
Of or relating to the cheek region of the face.
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



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