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Definition of Eye socket
1. Noun. The bony cavity in the skull containing the eyeball.
Generic synonyms: Bodily Cavity, Cavity, Cavum
Terms within: Lacrimal Bone
Group relationships: Skull
Derivative terms: Orbital
Definition of Eye socket
1. Noun. (anatomy) The bony cavity which contains the eyeball and its associated muscles, vessels, and nerves. In humans, seven bones make up each bony orbit: ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Eye socket
1. Generally the orbit, although the true "socket" for the eyeball, into which a prosthetic eye would be inserted, is formed by the fascial sheath of the eyeball. Synonym: orbit. Tooth socket, a socket in the alveolar process of the maxilla or mandible, into which each tooth fits and is attached by means of the periodontal ligament. Synonym: alveolus dentalis, alveolus. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eye Socket
Literary usage of Eye socket
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Expositor edited by William Robertson Nicoll, Samuel Cox, James Moffatt (1877)
"It appears, then, that Abba Saul must have been as high as two men and ten heads;
and if he sank up to the nose in the eye-socket of Absalom, Absalom's head ..."
2. Publication by Field Columbian Museum (1903)
"... now painted the grass bundle in the south eye-socket black, ... painted the
one in the north eye-socket red. The nose piece was now inserted. ..."
3. Alhacen's Theory of Visual Perception: A Critical Edition, with English by Alhazen, A. Mark Smith (2001)
"And thus the nerve to which the eye is affixed will follow its movement and will
flex at the opening in the hollow of the eye socket, because the hollow of ..."
4. Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1907)
"ONE meets with frequent references in works on craniology to the so- called
obliquity of the eye-socket ; hut as there does not seem to he any recognised ..."
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