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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The bony arch in vertebrates that extends along the side or front of the skull beneath the eye socket and that is formed by the zygomatic bone and the zygomatic process of the temporal bone.
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- noun anatomy An
arch formed by thezygomatic process oftemporal bone and the temporal process of thezygomatic bone .
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- noun the slender arch formed by the temporal process of the cheekbone that bridges to the zygomatic process of the temporal bone
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