zygomahttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zygoma_n%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezygoma, n.
First published 1921; not fully revised

zygomanoun

Anatomy.
  1. 1684–
    The bony arch on each side of the skull in vertebrates, consisting of the malar or jugal bone (cheek-bone) and its connections, and forming a junction between the cranial and facial bones; the zygomatic arch; also, in restricted sense, some part of this, as the malar bone itself, the zygomatic process of the temporal bone, or the process of the malar which articulates with this.
    1. 1684
      Zygoma is the jugal Bone about the Temples.
      translation of S. Blankaart, Physical Dictionary 302
    2. 1739
      There appeared near the Zigoma.., by the Wing of the Nostril, a slender Fluctuation.
      J. Sparrow, translation of H. F. Le Dran, Observations in Surgery iii. 13
    3. 1804
      The fracture ran horizontally, about a quarter of an inch above the zygoma.
      J. Abernethy, Surgical Observations 175
    4. 1825
      The Temporal muscle is seen in the temples, and its tendon passing under the zygoma.
      A. Monro, Elements of Anatomy of Human Body vol. I. 379
    5. a1842
      The zygoma, a process of the cheekbone, which joins the temporal bone.
      C. Bell, Anat. & Philos. Expression (ed. 3) (1844) iv. 109
    6. 1855
      At the lower part of the squamous portion there is an outgrowth of bone, termed the ‘zygoma’.
      L. Holden, Human Osteology 57
    7. 1893
      A ridge of bone, the supra-mastoid crest, runs immediately above the external auditory meatus, and is continued onwards to the zygoma.
      H. Morris, Treatise on Human Anatomy 37

zygoma, n. was first published in 1921; not fully revised.

zygoma, n. was last modified in July 2023.