The noun NINJA has 2 senses: 1. a member of the ninja who were trained in martial arts and hired for espionage or sabotage or assassinations; a person skilled in ninjutsu. 2. a class of 14th century Japanese who were trained in martial arts and were hired for espionage and assassinations.
zygoma (zÄ«gÅÂ´mÉ), n 1. a long, slender process of the temporal bone, arising from the lower part of the squamous portion of the temporal bone and passing forward horizontally to join with the malar or zygomatic bone. 2. the zygomatic or malar bone that forms the prominence of the cheek.
FIG. 164 Left zygomatic bone in situ. The zygomatic bone is small and quadrangular, and is situated at the upper and lateral part of the face: it forms the prominence of the cheek, part of the lateral wall and floor of the orbit, and parts of the temporal and infratemporal fossae (FossÃ¦. fig. 164all describes it as being ossified from one center which appears just beneath and to the lateral side of the orbit. After birth, the bone is sometimes divided by a horizontal suture into an upper larger, and a lower smaller division. In some quadrumana the zygomatic bone consists of two parts, an orbital and a malar.