ZYGOMATIC PROCESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does zygomatic process mean? 

• ZYGOMATIC PROCESS (noun)
  The noun ZYGOMATIC PROCESS has 1 sense:

1. a slender process of the temporal bone that strengthens the zygomatic arch

  Familiarity information: ZYGOMATIC PROCESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ZYGOMATIC PROCESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A slender process of the temporal bone that strengthens the zygomatic arch

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Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("zygomatic process" is a kind of...):

appendage; outgrowth; process (a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant)

Holonyms ("zygomatic process" is a part of...):

cheekbone; jugal bone; malar; malar bone; os zygomaticum; zygomatic; zygomatic bone (the arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek)