STRABISMUS

Strabismus

Strabismus, also known as heterotropia, is a condition in which the eyes are not properly aligned with each other. It typically involves a lack of coordination between the extraocular muscles, which prevents bringing the gaze of each eye to the same point in space and thus hampers proper binocular vision, and which may adversely affect depth perception. Strabismus can present as manifest or latent varieties, and can be either a disorder of the brain in coordinating the eyes, or of the power or direction of motion of one or more of the relevant muscles moving the eye. Strabismus is primarily managed by ophthalmologists, optometrists and ...

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strabismus

Noun

  1. 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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