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The best way to hold monoculars steady is to use two hands – one in front of the other – and use gravity when observing something at the zenith, allowing your eye socket to gently support their weight.
—Jamie Carter, Space.com, 9 Jan. 2025
Vu suffered a brain bleed, a broken neck and eye socket and remains hospitalized, prosecutors said.
—CBS News, 6 Dec. 2024
Ben-Shalom pushed the brain out of her eye socket and back into the correct position in her skull.
—Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2024
In those situations, the high intranasal pressure fractured one of the bones of the eye socket.
—Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, CNN, 4 Dec. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1661, in the meaning defined above
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“Eye socket.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eye%20socket. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
Kids Definition
eye socket
nounMedical Definition
eye socket
noun
: orbit
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