strabismus
See also: Strabismus
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Borrowed from New Latin strabismus, from Ancient Greek στραβισμός (strabismós), from στραβίζω (strabízō, “to squint”), from στραβός (strabós, “squinting”) (whence the synonymous Latin strabus).
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strabismus (usually uncountable, plural strabismuses)
- A defect of vision in which one eye cannot focus with the other on an object because of imbalance of the eye muscles; a squint.
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defect of vision
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- strabismus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia