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The phrase "eye socket" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the bony cavity in the skull that houses the eyeball.
Example: "The doctor examined the patient's eye socket for any signs of injury."
Alternatives: "orbital cavity" or "eye orbit."
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eye socket
noun
The bony cavity which contains the eyeball and its associated muscles, vessels, and nerves. In humans, seven bones make up each bony orbit.
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Then came purple along the eye socket.
The impact shattered his cheekbone, eye socket and nasal cavity.
It's not a fractured eye socket or a punctured lung.
One suffered a broken nose, eye socket and jaw.
"This one got my eye socket," he says.
Pressure was not sustained into the eye socket.
Do you have a BB in your eye socket?
Then he repeated the process with the other eye socket.
"I had facial reconstruction on my eye socket".
The water was passing through an eye socket.
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Freeman and a colleague, James Watts, operated on her before they developed the eye-socket technique.
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