eye socket

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

The bony cavity which contains the eyeball and its associated muscles, vessels, and nerves. In humans, seven bones make up each bony orbit.
The entire eyehole in the face: both the bony orbit and the flesh that surrounds it.

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From eye + socket.

cranial orbit orbital cavity orbit eyehole eye-pit

ethmoid bone frontal bone lacrimal bone maxilla palatine bone sphenoid bone zygomatic bone

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