LACRIMAL BONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lacrimal bone mean? 

• LACRIMAL BONE (noun)
  The noun LACRIMAL BONE has 1 sense:

1. small fragile bone making up part of the front inner walls of each eye socket and providing room for the passage of the lacrimal ducts

  Familiarity information: LACRIMAL BONE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LACRIMAL BONE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small fragile bone making up part of the front inner walls of each eye socket and providing room for the passage of the lacrimal ducts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("lacrimal bone" is a kind of...):

bone; os (rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates)

Holonyms ("lacrimal bone" is a part of...):

cranial orbit; eye socket; orbit; orbital cavity (the bony cavity in the skull containing the eyeball)