eye socket

American  

noun

1. the socket or orbit of the eye.

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eye socket British  

noun

1. the nontechnical name for orbit

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Etymology

Origin of eye socket

First recorded in 1835–45

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eye socket

Det Ch Insp Mel Sutherland said forensic anthropologist Dr Micol Zuppello worked for several days to "painstakingly extract the body", with all but the tip of a toe and some small eye socket bones recovered.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Preserved in nearly perfect three-dimensional detail, the skeleton includes a skull with a huge eye socket and an elongated, sword-like snout.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 24, 2026

Once replaced in the eye socket, T. Ocellus takes over the ocular pathways to the brain, overriding the neurotransmissions throughout the body.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2025

After spending six days in the ICU in Reno, he was transferred to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where another medical team tended to his shattered cheekbones, jaw and eye socket.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2024

Despite being undead, he’d grown into adulthood: his fur patchier, his whiskers more snarled, his eye socket wider.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman