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Cheekbone   /tʃˈikbˌoʊn/   Listen
Cheekbone

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






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"Cheekbone" Quotes from Famous Books



... to make signals to assemble. In this way, before reaching Collinson Inlet, we found the graves of two white men, near one of which was lying the upper part of a skull; while within the pile of stones we found the upper maxilla, with two teeth, and a piece of the cheekbone. No other human bones were found; but these were laid together for burial on our return, when we could give ...
— Schwatka's Search • William H. Gilder

... of colour, just as though on the frosted glass of a camera obscura. The foreman, with a red beard, matted to one side, and with blue austere eyes; and a tremendous young fellow, whose left eye was swollen, and who had a spot of a dark-blue colour spreading from the forehead to the cheekbone and from the nose to the temple; and a young boy with a naive, country face, with a gaping mouth like a fledgling's, weak, moist; and an old man who, having come late, was running after the gang at a funny, goat-like trot; and their clothes, soiled with lime, their aprons and ...
— Yama (The Pit) • Alexandra Kuprin



Words linked to "Cheekbone" :   jugal point, zygomatic arch, skull, jugale, os, zygomatic process, zygoma, bone, arcus zygomaticus



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