cranial orbit

Questions about cranial orbit

What does cranial orbit mean?

cranial orbit means "the bony cavity in the skull containing the eyeball".

What is another word for cranial orbit?

Close synonyms include eye socket, orbit, orbital cavity. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cranial orbit a common word?

cranial orbit is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.