eye socket

See also: eyesocket

English

The seven bones that form the human orbit:
yellow = frontal bone
green = lacrimal bone
brown = ethmoid bone
blue = zygomatic bone
purple = maxilla
aqua = palatine bone
red = sphenoid bone

teal = nasal bone (illustrated but not part of the orbit)

These skulls are from a wild boar (the smaller skull) and an aurochs (a wild bovine; the larger skull). The eye sockets are the prominent roundish cavitities.

Alternative forms

• eye-socket, eyesocket

Etymology

From eye +‎ socket.

Pronunciation

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Noun

eye socket (plural eye sockets)

2. (anatomy, ophthalmology) The bony cavity which contains the eyeball and its associated muscles, vessels, and nerves. In humans, seven bones make up each bony orbit.

   Synonyms: cranial orbit, orbital cavity, orbit

   Hypernyms: socket, hole, cavity, opening

   Near-synonyms: eyehole, eye-pit

4. The entire eyehole in the face: both the bony orbit and the flesh that surrounds it.

   Hypernyms: socket, hole, cavity, opening

Translations

socket of eye

• Arabic: مِحْجَر m (miḥjar), حَجَاج m (ḥajāj)
• Armenian: ակնակապիճ (hy) (aknakapič)
• Azerbaijani: göz yuvası, hədəqə (az), göz çuxuru
• Basque: betzulo, begi-zulo
• Bulgarian: о́чна кухина́ f (óčna kuhiná)
• Catalan: conca (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 目空 (zh-min-nan) (ba̍k-khang)

  Mandarin: 眼窩 / 眼窝 (zh) (yǎnwō), 眶 (zh) (kuàng, kuāng)

• Cornish: kraw lagas m
• Czech: oční důlek m, očnice f, oční jamka f
• Danish: øjenhule c
• Dutch: oogkas (nl) f, oogholte (nl)
• Erzya: сельмеваря (seľmevaŕa)
• Esperanto: kavo (eo)
• Estonian: silmaauk, silmakoobas
• Finnish: silmäkuoppa (fi), silmäaukko
• French: orbite (fr) f, cavité oculaire f, orbite crânienne f, orbite de l'œil f
• Galician: cunca (gl) f
• German: Augenhöhle (de) f; Orbita f (scientific)
• Greek: οφθαλμικός κόγχος m (ofthalmikós kónchos)
• Hebrew: אֲרֻבַּת עַיִן f (arubát 'áin)
• Hungarian: szemüreg (hu), szemgödör (hu)
• Ido: orbito (io)
• Indonesian: orbita (id)
• Irish: log súile m
• Japanese: 眼窩 (ja) (がんか, ganka)
• Korean: 눈구멍 (ko) (nun'gumeong), 안와 (ko) (anwa)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: کاڵانە (kallane)

  Northern Kurdish: kunka çavî

  Southern Kurdish: بِلیاق (bilyaq)

• Latin: orbita ocularis
• Latvian: acs dobums m, orbīta f
• Lithuanian: akiduobė (lt) f
• Manchu: ᠶᠠᠰᠠ ᡳ
  ᡥᡡᠨᡨᠠᡥᠠᠨ (yasa-i hūntahan)
• Māori: kape
• Marathi: नेत्रगुहा f (netraguhā)
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: орбите (orbite), шинчалаке (šinčalake), шинчарож (šinčarož)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: øyehule m or f

  Nynorsk: augehole f

• Persian: چشمخانه (fa) sg (čašmxāne), حدقه (fa) sg (hadaqe), کاسهٔ چشم sg (kāse-ye čašm)
• Polish: oczodół (pl) m
• Portuguese: órbita (pt) f, cavidade ocular f
• Romanian: orbită (ro) f, găvan (ro) n
• Russian: глазна́я впа́дина f (glaznája vpádina), орби́та (ru) f (orbíta), глазни́ца (ru) f (glazníca)
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: wóčnica f

• Spanish: cuenca (es) f
• Sundanese: kongkolak
• Swedish: ögonhåla (sv) c
• Tanana:

  Lower Tanana: -nak'a

• Turkish: göz çukuru (tr)
• Vietnamese: ổ mắt (vi)
• Volapük: logakev (vo)
• Welsh: pwll y llygad m, crau'r llygad m

See also

bones making up the human eye socket

• ethmoid bone
• frontal bone
• lacrimal bone
• maxilla
• palatine bone
• sphenoid bone
• zygomatic bone