floor of orbit
floor of or·bit
[TA] the floor of the orbit; the shortest of the four walls of the orbit, sloping upward from the orbital margin; it is composed of the maxilla and orbital process of the palatine bone.
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Intraoperatively, no discrete lesion was identified except inflamed soft tissue eroding anterior wall of the maxilla and the
floor of orbit. The lesion was removed in a piecemeal manner.
Extraocular muscles namely superior (73.0%) and inferior (78.4%), recti were better visualized adjacent to roof and
floor of orbit respectively in coronal scans.
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