eye socket

See also: eyesocket

English

The seven bones that form the human orbit:
yellow = frontal bone
green = lacrimal bone
brown = ethmoid bone
blue = zygomatic bone
purple = maxilla
aqua = palatine bone
red = sphenoid bone

teal = nasal bone (illustrated but not part of the orbit)
These skulls are from a wild boar (the smaller skull) and an aurochs (a wild bovine; the larger skull). The eye sockets are the prominent roundish cavitities.

Alternative forms

Etymology

From eye +‎ socket.

Pronunciation

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Noun

eye socket (plural eye sockets)

  2. (anatomy, ophthalmology) The bony cavity which contains the eyeball and its associated muscles, vessels, and nerves. In humans, seven bones make up each bony orbit.
    Synonyms: cranial orbit, orbital cavity, orbit
    Hypernyms: socket, hole, cavity, opening
    Near-synonyms: eyehole, eye-pit
  4. The entire eyehole in the face: both the bony orbit and the flesh that surrounds it.
    Hypernyms: socket, hole, cavity, opening

Translations

See also

bones making up the human eye socket
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