eye socket

See also: eyesocket

English

Alternative forms

• eye-socket, eyesocket

Etymology

From eye +‎ socket.

Noun

eye socket (plural eye sockets)

1. (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
• eyehole, eyepit
• orbit
• orbital cavity

Meronyms

• (bones making up the eye socket) frontal bone, zygomatic bone, maxilla, sphenoid bone, ethmoid bone, palatine bone, lacrimal bone

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
• Erzya: сельмеваря (śeľmevaŕa)
• 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)
• 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)
• Maori: kape
• Norwegian:

  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)
• Spanish: cuenca (es) f
• Swedish: ögonhåla (sv) c
• Turkish: göz çukuru (tr)
• Vietnamese: ổ mắt (vi)
• Volapük: logakev (vo)
• Welsh: pwll y llygad m, crau'r llygad m