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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.
In anatomy, the zygomatic arch, or cheek bone, is a part of the skull formed by the zygomatic process of the temporal bone (a bone extending forward from the side of the skull, over the opening of the ear) and the temporal process of the zygomatic bone (the side of the cheekbone), the two being united by an oblique suture (the zygomaticotemporal suture); [1] the tendon of the temporal muscle ...
Cephalic index viewed from above the head. The cephalic index or cranial index is a number obtained by taking the maximum width (biparietal diameter or BPD, side to side) of the head of an organism, multiplying it by 100 and then dividing it by their maximum length (occipitofrontal diameter or OFD, front to back).
Facial symmetry has been shown to be considered attractive in women, [186] [187] and men have been found to prefer full lips, [188] high forehead, broad face, small chin, small nose, short and narrow jaw, high cheekbones, [39] [189] clear and smooth skin, and wide-set eyes. [64]
A human skull and measurement device from 1902. Craniometry is measurement of the cranium (the main part of the skull), usually the human cranium.It is a subset of cephalometry, measurement of the head, which in humans is a subset of anthropometry, measurement of the human body.
Nearly all high cheekbones are prominent, but not all prominent cheekbones are high. The same is with the nose. The aquiline nose - which is common among Native Americans , Semites ( Arabs and Jews ), Persians , Armenians , Indians , or people from Southern Europe and the Horn of Africa - is usually prominent, and not all prominent noses are ...
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7 "Zygomatic arches, also known as high cheek bones, are considered physically attractive in some cultures, in both males and females." and in other cultures low cheek bones are considered physically attractive in both males and females? why in other cultures low bone cheeks are considered physically attractive in both males and females?