Crossword-Solution: ZYGOMATICUS
We have 4 clues for the answer “ZYGOMATICUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| MUSCLE which raise the corners of the mouth upward | 1 answer |
| SMILING muscle | 1 answer |
| MUSCLE of the body | 18 answers |
| BODY muscle(s) | 22 answers |
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Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
ENE
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Sentences with ZYGOMATICUS (5)
Haow?--said the divinity-student.--He colored, as he noticed on my face a twitch in one of the muscles which tuck up the corner of the mouth, (zygomaticus major,) and which I could not hold back from making a little movement on its own account.
From both the topotypes of _nanus_, and the series of it from Wyoming, _zygomaticus_ differs on the average in having a relatively shorter tail, a relatively shorter upper molar tooth-row, relatively more rounded and relatively more wide-spread zygomatic arches, and smaller more flattened bullae.
After _zygomaticus_ the following populations are arranged according to their degree of deviation from this norm (_codiensis_ deviates most): topotypes of _codiensis_, _fusus_ and a population from southern Sweetwater County, Wyoming, and lastly the _nanus-caryi_ complex.
The first of the common is the _Zygomaticus_, the Origine whereof is in the _Zygoma_ and its Insertion in the Corner of the Mouth, to draw it toward the Ears; so that it is the Muscle which acts when we laugh.
The posterior, so-called _processus Zygomaticus_ is very variable; in many Galli it encloses a foramen by distally joining the orbital process.
Quotes with ZYGOMATICUS (1)
If you happen to be one of the people who has a split zygomaticus major muscle, where the lower part of it is tethered to the overlying skin, this will create a dimple in your cheek when you smile.