EYE SOCKET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eye socket mean? 

• EYE SOCKET (noun)
  The noun EYE SOCKET has 1 sense:

1. the bony cavity in the skull containing the eyeball

  Familiarity information: EYE SOCKET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EYE SOCKET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The bony cavity in the skull containing the eyeball

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

cranial orbit; eye socket; orbit; orbital cavity

Hypernyms ("eye socket" is a kind of...):

bodily cavity; cavity; cavum ((anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body)

Meronyms (parts of "eye socket"):

lacrimal bone (small fragile bone making up part of the front inner walls of each eye socket and providing room for the passage of the lacrimal ducts)

Holonyms ("eye socket" is a part of...):

skull (the bony skeleton of the head of vertebrates)

 Context examples 

The lacrimal glands are found in the upper, outer part of each eye socket.

(Lacrimal gland, NCI Dictionary)

There are two, large frontal sinuses in the frontal bone, which forms the lower part of the forehead and reaches over the eye sockets and eyebrows.

(Frontal sinus, NCI Dictionary)

Abnormal recession of the eyeball within the eye socket.

(Enophthalmos, NCI Thesaurus)

The arched strip of hair on the bony ridge above each eye socket.

(Eyebrow, NCI Thesaurus)

Vintana's skull has an unusual shape, with deep, huge eye sockets, and long, scimitar-shaped flanges for attachment of massive chewing muscles.

(Scientists discover fossil of bizarre groundhog-like mammal on Madagascar, NSF)

Its teeth, eye sockets, braincase, and inner ear revealed that Vintana was likely a large-eyed herbivore that was agile, with keen senses of hearing and smell.

(Scientists discover fossil of bizarre groundhog-like mammal on Madagascar, NSF)