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Eye socket

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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"

  2. 2
    the bony cavity in the skull containing the eyeball wordnet
  3. 3
    The entire eyehole in the face: both the bony orbit and the flesh that surrounds it.

Etymology

From eye + socket.

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