Wiktionary
n. (context anatomy English) The bony cavity which contains the eyeball and its associated muscles, vessels, and nerves. In humans, seven bones make up each bony orbit:
WordNet
n. the bony cavity in the skull containing the eyeball [syn: orbit, cranial orbit, orbital cavity]
Usage examples of "eye socket".
Gold gleamed in his scarred eye socket and a thin green ray, almost lost in the swirling blue-green of the sea, stabbed toward the temple.
She was, she said, going to show Joe howto clean out his eye socket--a task, shecautioned, that had to be performed with a specialsolution and a Water Pik twice a day.
And there is just an ugly crusted paste in one eye socket, poor Mr.
When I returned, Mike was shining a penlight into Ringo's eye socket, and Laura was peering inside.
She watched in fascination as he found the release beneath the plastiskin near the outer rim of the eye socket.
He was face to face with his dead mother, peering into her empty eye socket.
He set his creature on the table and peeled back his hood, revealing a smashed Yuuzhan Vong face with one empty eye socket.
Tears formed in his eyes and tears dripped from the corner of the red eye socket.
He saw it, actually saw the tip of the blade as it grated into his left eye socket.
He stood more than six feet tall, with a mane of waving, dark curls that framed a square-jawed and handsome face, that was only somewhat marred by the patch that covered the empty left eye socket.