bony socket of the eye

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• socket — SYN: gomphosis. 1. The hollow part of a joint; the excavation in one bone of a joint which receives the articular end of the other bone. 2. Any hollow or concavity into which another part …   Medical dictionary

• bony — [[t]bo͟ʊni[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n Someone who has a bony face or bony hands, for example, has a very thin face or very thin hands, with very little flesh covering their bones. ...an old man with a bony face and white hair... He poked a… …   English dictionary

• eye socket — noun the bony cavity in the skull containing the eyeball (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑orbit, ↑cranial orbit, ↑orbital cavity • Derivationally related forms: ↑orbital (for: ↑orbit) …   Useful english dictionary

• eye socket — noun The bony cavity which contains the eyeball and its associated muscles, vessels, and nerves. In humans, seven bones make up each bony orbit: frontal bone Syn: cranial orbit, orbit, or …   Wiktionary

• orbit — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Medieval Latin orbita, from Latin, rut, track, probably from orbis Date: 15th century the bony socket of the eye • orbital adjective II. noun Etymology: Latin orbita path, rut, orbit Date: 1696 …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• orbit — orbitary, adj. /awr bit/, n. 1. the curved path, usually elliptical, described by a planet, satellite, spaceship, etc., around a celestial body, as the sun. 2. the usual course of one s life or range of one s activities. 3. the sphere of power or …   Universalium

• orbit — /ˈɔbət / (say awbuht) noun 1. the elliptical or curved path described by a celestial object or spacecraft, about a star or planet. 2. one complete circuit of an orbital path. 3. the path that one object takes in relation to a fixed point. 4. a… …  

• bird — birdless, adj. /berrd/, n. 1. any warm blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard shelled egg. 2. a fowl or game bird. 3 …   Universalium

• Bird — /berrd/, n. Larry, born 1956, U.S. basketball player. * * * I Any of the warm blooded, beaked vertebrates of the class Aves, including more than 9,600 living species. A covering of feathers distinguishes birds from all other animals. Birds have a …   Universalium

• orbit — [ôr′bit] n. [MFr orbite < ML orbita < L, path, track < orbis, a circle, wheel] 1. the bony cavity containing the eye; eye socket 2. [L orbita] a) the actual or imaginary path taken by a celestial body during its periodic revolution… …   English World dictionary

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