eye socket

The bony cavity which contains the eyeball and its associated muscles, vessels, and nerves. In humans, seven bones make up each bony orbit.

Noun

  1. The bony cavity which contains the eyeball and its associated muscles, vessels, and nerves. In humans, seven bones make up each bony orbit.
    • Near-synonyms: eyehole, eye-pit

    Synonyms: cranial orbit orbital cavity orbit eyehole eye-pit

    Hypernyms: socket hole cavity opening

  2. The entire eyehole in the face: both the bony orbit and the flesh that surrounds it.

    Hypernyms: socket hole cavity opening

Origin

From eye + socket.

Forms

eye sockets eye-socket eyesocket

Related

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