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.
Zygote: The cell formed by the union of a male sex cell (a sperm) and a female sex cell (an ovum). The zygote develops into the embryo following the instruction encoded in its genetic material, the DNA. The unification of a sperm and an ovum to form a zygote constitutes fertilization.