eye socket
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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.
See also: eyesocket
English
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)
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Noun
eye socket (plural eye sockets)
- (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
- The entire eyehole in the face: both the bony orbit and the flesh that surrounds it.
Translations
socket of eye
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See also
bones making up the human eye socket