estrabismo
Portuguese
editPronunciation
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- Hyphenation: es‧tra‧bis‧mo
Noun
editestrabismo m (plural estrabismos)
- (ophthalmology) strabismus; squint (inability to point both eyes to the same point)
Spanish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from New Latin strabismus, from Ancient Greek στραβισμός (strabismós, “(action of) squinting”), from στραβίζω (strabízō, “to squint”), from στραβός (strabós, “squinting, squint-eyed”) (whence the synonymous Latin strabus), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *strebʰ-, whence Ancient Greek στρέφω (stréphō, “to twist”) and στρεβλός (streblós, “twisted”).
Noun
editestrabismo m (plural estrabismos)
- 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
- strabismus
Further reading
edit- “estrabismo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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