"socket depth" is an acceptable phrase used in written English.
It typically refers to the depth of a hollow opening or depression in a surface. You could use it in a sentence like this: "We need to measure the socket depth to ensure the screws fit perfectly."
A 4.5 mm cannulated drill is used to create a socket to a depth of 20 mm to fully accommodate the bone anchor.
These marks make a cheek turn, a thumb articulate with a wrist, a breast press against an arm, an eye fit into its socket, a doorway have depth or a mantle circle a head.
No one has mentioned any primary deficiency of the limbus, and yet it is an early embryonic development of obvious importance in increasing the depth of the socket and thereby maintaining stability of the femoral head within the socket.
The depth of the socket had to be sufficient to provide stable articulation during a trial reduction with the thumb adducted.
The screw should extend about 1/4" to 1/2" (6.35mm to 1.27cm), depending on the depth of the socket.
No signs of hip dislocation were noted, with a good seating of the femoral head in the acetabulum and the correct depth of the sockets cover.
Patients that qualified for further tests did not have any acute inflammatory conditions of oral mucosa and the depth of periodontal sockets was less than 5 mm.
The variety of effects possible are too numerous to mention here but, in general, dark colors around the eye increase the perceived depth of the eye socket and light colors have the reverse effect.
The prominent cheekbones are almost unnoticed in the shadow of the nose but help exaggerate the depth of the eye sockets.
Was it Greta and her pre-ops, or the depth of Kromer's eye sockets?
By translating the calibration socket and capturing an A-scan, or axial depth scan, at every 3.5-mm of lateral position using a single, central channel (channel 3), the tomographic image in Fig. 4(c) was created.
