Zygomatic bone
 Zygomatic bone
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| Field | Anatomy |
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| Also known as | zygoma, malar, cheekbone
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The zygomatic bone is the cheekbone.[1] It makes the highlight, a chunk of bizygomatic width, the lateral orbit wall, and the front of the zygomatic arch. Looksmaxxing “zygomatics” usually means how far the malar eminence sticks out and whether fat is covering it.
Cheekbones is the aesthetic lemma; this page is the bone.
What it is not
Mastication does not grow a zygoma in adults. “Zygosmashing” is the same injury class as bonesmashing. Implants (malar, infraorbital-malar) are CAD/surgery. Korea often reduces zygomas; Western looksmaxxing more often wants them forward. Same bone, opposite wish. See ID Hospital.
Gallery
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Isolated zygoma -
Gray 164 — zygomatic in situ -
Gray 165 — left zygoma, outer surface -
Gray 166 — left zygoma, inner surface
Images from Wikimedia Commons via InstantCommons.
See also
References
Anatomy condensed from standard descriptions (CC BY-SA Wikipedia Zygomatic bone, retrieved 2026-09-10).
- ↑ Henry Gray. Gray's Anatomy. 20th American ed. Lea & Febiger. 1918. Retrieved 11 September 2026.