zygomatic bone

Also known as zygoma, malar bone, cheekbone

facial bone

AI overview

The zygomatic bone is the cheekbone in your face that forms the prominence of your cheek and helps define your facial structure. It plays an important role in protecting the eye socket and providing attachment points for muscles involved in chewing and facial movement.

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Encyclopedic overview

In the human skull, the zygomatic bone (from Ancient Greek: ζῠγόν, romanized: zugón, lit. 'yoke'), also called cheekbone or malar bone, is a paired irregular bone, situated at the upper and lateral part of the face and forming part of the lateral wall and floor of the orbit, of the temporal fossa and the infratemporal fossa. It presents a malar and a temporal surface; four processes (the frontosphenoidal, orbital, maxillary, and temporal), and four borders.

Etymology

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “zygomatic bone” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.