The term zygoma generally refers to the zygomatic bone, a bone of the

human skull The skull is a bone protective cavity for the brain. The skull is composed of four types of bone i.e., cranial bones, facial bones, ear ossicles and hyoid bone. However two parts are more prominent: the cranium and the mandible. In humans, th ...

commonly referred to as the cheekbone or malar bone, but it may also refer to: * The zygomatic arch, a structure in the human skull formed primarily by parts of the zygomatic bone and the temporal bone * The zygomatic process, a bony protrusion of the human skull, mostly composed of the zygomatic bone but also contributed to by the

frontal bone The frontal bone is a bone in the human skull. The bone consists of two portions.'' Gray's Anatomy'' (1918) These are the vertically oriented squamous part, and the horizontally oriented orbital part, making up the bony part of the forehead, ...

, temporal bone, and

maxilla The maxilla (plural: ''maxillae'' ) in vertebrates is the upper fixed (not fixed in Neopterygii) bone of the jaw formed from the fusion of two maxillary bones. In humans, the upper jaw includes the hard palate in the front of the mouth. T ...

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