The term
"eye socket" refers to the bony structure in our skull where our eyeball sits. It is like a hollow or a hole in our skull that protects and holds our eye in place.
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It is often the result of a too -
shallow eye socket or a skull that incorrectly falls away behind the eyes.
The dogs seized were suffering from injuries including one with a torn
left eye socket that was untreated and left the dog blind.
He had a patch over his
empty eye socket, but he seemed determined to make the most of his life.
What ultimately convinced the researchers was a small scar above the
right eye socket.
The shapes
of eye sockets differ predictably in birds that feed during the day, night or twilight, according to a study that promises to spill the beans on the dino - bird's lifestyle.
Pearce and Dunbar suggest their measured increase
in eye socket volume, and inferred increase in eyeball size, could explain this.
At first glance, they look like grids of abstract black patterns on white ground, but then the grids appear to divide into rows of worried faces peering out through hollow
eye sockets with crosshatch mouths.
If the scaling still looks wrong it's because your eyes are too far apart... look
into eye socket reconstruction surgery...
Six guards at New York City's Rikers Island jail complex were sentenced on Friday to prison for the 2012 beating of an inmate that left him with
fractured eye sockets and a broken nose.
Humans evolved
larger eye sockets as they moved towards the poles, allowing them to cope with the low light levels present compared with the tropics.
Emmanuel pressed his fingers into the ridge of bone above his left
eye socket where a headache stirred.
Rather, its common black sweatshirt, jeans and short hair make it almost totally believable from the back, and its unnerving carved out
eye sockets make it admittedly rather startling if not altogether sinister, when viewed from its front.
«Gordon's Calvary» (the place General Gordon identified as the site of the crucifixion) looks exactly like a skull with a ridge for a nose and two huge indentations on either side of the ridge that look
like eye sockets.
Schmitz is currently making detailed measurements, but a quick look at Archaeopteryx fossils reveals that it had wide scleral rings and
deep eye sockets, says Derek Yalden at the University of Manchester.
Aurora is a typical penguin with
black eye sockets, and when she blinks her eyelids are a pale - pink.
But he's been stabbed and broken two
eye sockets against legit beasts (and criminals) and keeps coming back for more, so Im not gonna doubt him for now.
injuries to other body parts such as the knee or
eye socket don't factor into the contract.
How many more Correction Officers must be slashed in the face, have their bones broken, or
eye sockets punched, and be pummeled to the ground before this city wakes up?
Standing just 6 inches tall — about the length of a dollar bill — with an angular, elongated skull and sunken,
slanted eye sockets, the internet began to bubble with other - worldly hullabaloo and talk of ET.
This micrograph image reveals a cross-section of the head of a fetal cat, its
imposing eye sockets clearly visible.
Clarke has described its mix of ancient and modern body parts: hands with short palms and fingers like our own, a big toe that could grasp like an ape's, widely
spaced eye sockets and large, bulbous molars.
The few positive aspects of the game are drowned out by
eye socket rattling repetition that makes you slink down into your chair and sigh at the monitor whilst gently weeping.
For all its smashed open cuts and
swollen eye sockets, Younger's film remains an oddly sterile experience.
Perhaps the only legitimately thrilling part of this look at the film is Mikkelsen's glowing, demonic, skin -
peeling eye sockets, which flash around at the screen in several creepy shots.
An ultrasound of an eye may be done to check for a detached retina or masses within the eye or between the eye and the
bony eye socket.
On the streets of Shanghai's French Concession, it's not uncommon to see duck heads devoid of body, staring vacantly through punched - out
eye sockets at passerbys.
Not only do they do utter carnage to your opponents health bar, but they also bring a huge smile to your face, even if you did just watch your blades slide through
someones eye sockets and are now wondering how the hell they can still be fighting.
Already, though, Duplessis is idealizing, by rubbing with a blunt instrument or his fingers to smooth out his only known pastel, by minimizing the gray in Franklin's hair, and by dwelling on the marks of intelligence in his sitter's high forehead,
tall eye sockets, steady jaw, cleft chin, and pursed lips.
When I first saw them at MoMA I harked to a felt connection between Rauschenberg's performances at Black Mountain College on roller skates with parachute fabric and these eye - like deep aperture spaces that owed something to tail fins and something more to the
sublime eye sockets of Easter Island.
When viewed from behind, two monitors set in each of the mask's
eye sockets display live footage of two opposing corners of the room.
While presumably indicative of sleep, the curiously
smoothed eye sockets may suggest the limited sensual experience of early infancy.
Last year one of his sculptures loomed over the 2010 Whitney Biennial» a large, crouched figure with
gaping eye sockets that he tenderly titled «Baby.»
The portrait itself is intended to be difficult to look at, as Currie sets out to expose the true human cost of mechanised combat, with grotesque distortions,
misplaced eye sockets and lolling mouth cavity.
A TV reporter who covers the Atlanta Braves for Fox Sports South has suffered a fractured
eye socket after she was hit by a foul ball.
So I would have to send really detailed lists of sound effects to the sound crew such as, «I need the sound of thumbs coming out
of eye sockets.»
None of his paintings depict any particular person, but they all have the same gaunt skeletal structure, with dark,
empty eye sockets like the shaky long exposures of a daguerreotype photo.
The 26 - year - old Durham all - rounder was arrested on suspicion of causing actual bodily harm after an incident in Bristol in September in which a man suffered a
fractured eye socket.
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