Definition of orbit

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Orbit (n.) The cavity or socket of the skull in which the eye and its appendages are situated.

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Orbit :: Orbit (n.) The cavity or socket of the skull in which the eye and its appendages are situated.
Postorbital :: Postorbital (n.) A postorbital bone or scale.
Disorb :: Disorb (v. t.) To throw out of the proper orbit; to unsphere.
Orbital :: Orbital (a.) Of or pertaining to an orbit.
Trochlea :: Trochlea (n.) A pulley, or a structure resembling a pulley; as, the trochlea, or pulleylike end, of the humerus, which articulates with the ulna; or the trochlea, or fibrous ring, in the upper part of the orbit, through which the superior oblique, or trochlear, muscle of the eye passes..
Unreasonable :: Unreasonable (a.) Not reasonable; irrational; immoderate; exorbitant.
Orbit :: Orbit (n.) An orb or ball.
Orbitude :: Orbitude (n.) Alt. of Orbit.
Postocular :: Postocular (a. & n.) Same as Postorbital.
Harderian :: Harderian (a.) A term applied to a lachrymal gland on the inner side of the orbit of many animals which have a third eyelid, or nictitating membrane. See Nictitating membrane, under Nictitate..
Absorbition :: Absorbition (n.) Absorption.
Preorbital :: Preorbital (a.) Situated in front or the orbit.
Sorbite :: Sorbite (n.) A sugarlike substance, isomeric with mannite and dulcite, found with sorbin in the ripe berries of the sorb, and extracted as a sirup or a white crystalline substance..
Orbituary :: Orbituary (a.) Orbital.
Microseme :: Microseme (a.) Having the orbital index relatively small; having the orbits broad transversely; -- opposed to megaseme.
Regrede :: Regrede (v. i.) To go back; to retrograde, as the apsis of a planet's orbit..
Suprapedal :: Supraorbitar (a.) Situated above the orbit of the eye.
Aphelion :: Aphelion (n.) That point of a planet's or comet's orbit which is most distant from the sun, the opposite point being the perihelion..
Orbitosphenoidal :: Orbitosphenoidal (a.) Of or pertaining to the orbitosphenoid bone; orbitosphenoid.
Antorbital :: Antorbital (a.) Pertaining to, or situated in, the region of the front of the orbit..
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