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Orbit

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In medicine, the bony cavity in which the eyeball sits together with its associated muscles, blood vessels, and nerves.

The orbit is formed of parts of the ethmoid, frontal, lacrimal, nasal, palatine, sphenoid, and zygomatic bones and the maxilla

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