orbital cavity

Questions about orbital cavity

What does orbital cavity mean?

orbital cavity means "the bony cavity in the skull containing the eyeball".

What is another word for orbital cavity?

Close synonyms include eye socket, orbit, cranial orbit. 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 orbital cavity a common word?

orbital cavity 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for orbital cavity come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.