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zygomatic bone
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zygomatic bone [¦zī·gə¦mad·ik ′bōn]
(anatomy)
A bone of the side of the face below the eye; forms part of the zygomatic arch and part of the orbit in mammals. Also known as malar bone.


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Moyce, 2008) Just putting your zygomatics into the shape of a smile, whether you feel happy or not, may be enough to release some endorphins.
If Neolithic women suffered enough facial traumas to result in tooth loss in a quarter of the individuals studied, we would expect to see numerous traumatic injuries to the mandible, maxillae, nasals, zygomatics and adjacent bones.
A series of qualitative characters, especially the development of the zygomatics and rostrum, was used to assess four age groups of 288 specimens of Thomomys umbrinus from Sierra de Tlaxco, Mexico.
 
 
 
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