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the architectural beam that turns a face into a magazine cover.
means The bony ridge below each eye that gives the face its width and shape — anatomically, the zygomatic bone.
from A plain compound of two old Germanic words. 'Cheek' comes from Old English 'cēce' or 'cēace,' meaning jaw or cheek, with cousins across the Germanic languages. 'Bone' is from Old English 'bān,' a word shared with Old Norse 'bein' and German 'Bein' (now 'leg'). So the term is exactly what it says — the bone of the cheek — while anatomists reach for the Greek-derived 'zygomatic,' from 'zygon,' a yoke, because the bone bridges and joins the side of the skull.
- real name
- the zygomatic bone, anchoring your face's frame
- socket builder
- helps form the wall of your eye socket
- muscle anchor
- chewing muscles hook directly onto it
- beauty signal
- high ones signal youth and health cross-culturally
- break risk
- common fracture in fights and crashes
zygoma — the facial bone that forms the prominence of the cheek in all humans
malar bone — anatomical term for the cheekbone, derived from 'mala' meaning cheek in latin