stenopaeic

English

Alternative forms

• stenopaic
• stenopeic

Etymology

From Ancient Greek στενός (stenós, “narrow”) (see steno-) + ὀπαῖος (opaîos, “perforated”), from ὀπή (opḗ, “opening”).

Adjective

stenopaeic (not comparable)

1. (optics) Pertaining to a narrow opening or slit in an opaque barrier that restricts the light which reaches the eye.
   • 1976 April, Thorkild Bramsen, “Traumatic hyphaema treated with the antifibrinolytic drug tranexamic acid”, in Acta ophthalmologica, volume 54, number 2:

     These patients were selected retrospectively, and only those treated with complete bed-rest and stenopaeic spectacles alone were accepted.

   • 2009, Mark Rosenfield, Nicola Logan, Keith H. Edwards, Optometry: Science, Techniques and Clinical Management, →ISBN, page 219:

     Stenopaeic slit refraction is usually attempted when retinoscopy and more conventional subjective refractive techniques, i.e. JCC and FC, fail to provide satisfactory results.

   • 2013, F. Crescitelli, The Visual System in Vertebrates, →ISBN, page 680:

     By contrast, the more aquatic sea lion eye is emmetropic in water and depends upon a flattened cornea and stenopaeic aperture for the formation of a good image in air (WALLs, 1942; SCHUSTERMAN, 1972).

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• section ape