ổ mắt
Definition
- Noun:
- Eye socket (archaic/formal): The bony cavity in the skull that contains and protects the eyeball and its associated structures. This term is considered somewhat old-fashioned or literary in modern Vietnamese.
Usage Examples
- Noun:
- Sau cú ngã, anh ấy bị bầm tím quanh ổ mắt. (After the fall, he had bruising around his eye socket.)
- Trong y học, ổ mắt là một cấu trúc phức tạp. (In medicine, the eye socket is a complex structure.)
Advanced Usage
- This term is primarily used in anatomical, medical, or formal descriptive contexts. In everyday conversation, modern Vietnamese more commonly uses "hốc mắt".
Variants and Related Words
- Hốc mắt (n): The more common contemporary term for "eye socket".
- Cô ấy có hốc mắt sâu. (She has deep-set eyes / deep eye sockets.)
- Ổ (n): Literally means "nest" or "den", used in compound words to denote a cavity or receptacle (e.g., - lock, - socket/outlet).
Synonyms
- Orbit (n): The anatomical English term.
- Orbital cavity (n): A more precise anatomical term.
Related Idioms
- While there are no direct idioms using "ổ mắt", the concept is related to expressions about eyes, such as:
- Mắt trũng sâu: Deep-sunken eyes (describing eyes deep within the sockets).
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(cũ)Eye socket
