zygomatic arch in dogs

The bony arch in vertebrates that extends along the side or front of the skull beneath the eye socket and is formed by the temporal process of the zygomatic bone and the zygomatic process of the temporal bone. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the zygomatic arch is

The bony arch in vertebrates that extends along the side or front of the skull beneath the eye socket and is formed by the temporal process of the zygomatic bone and the zygomatic process of the temporal bone. The atlas records it as a bone at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the zygomatic arch is

It sits in the head, within the skeletal system. Not positioned individually, and containment is not asserted either. Drawn near structures of the same kind, which is a weak claim about location.

What the zygomatic arch connects to

The atlas records 8 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of anatomical entity.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the zygomatic arch. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as zygoma and arcus zygomaticus. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002500, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: anatomical entity.
• A kind of: anatomical structure, facial bone and neurocranium bone.
• Attaches to: masseter muscle.
• contains: temporal process of zygomatic bone and zygomatic process of temporal bone.
• originates from: masseter muscle.

Questions

Where is the zygomatic arch?

It sits in the head, within the skeletal system. Not positioned individually, and containment is not asserted either. Drawn near structures of the same kind, which is a weak claim about location.

What does the zygomatic arch connect to?

Part of: anatomical entity.

Is the zygomatic arch the same in other species?

This page describes the dog. The human record of the same structure sits beside it on /compare, over one shared model rather than two atlases built separately.