lacrimal bone

1. 1.

   small fragile bone making up part of the front inner walls of each eye socket and providing room for the passage of the lacrimal ducts

   Broaderbone

   Part ofeye socket

Questions about lacrimal bone

What does lacrimal bone mean?

lacrimal bone means "small fragile bone making up part of the front inner walls of each eye socket and providing room for the passage of the lacrimal ducts".

Is lacrimal bone a common word?

lacrimal bone 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.