Strabismic


noun, Ophthalmology.
1.
a disorder of vision due to a deviation from normal orientation of one or both eyes so that both cannot be directed at the same object at the same time; squint; crossed eyes.
noun
1.
abnormal alignment of one or both eyes, characterized by a turning inwards or outwards from the nose thus preventing parallel vision: caused by paralysis of an eye muscle, etc Also called squint

strabismus stra·bis·mus (strə-bĭz’məs)
n.
A visual defect in which one eye cannot focus with the other on an objective because of imbalance of the eye muscles. Also called heterotropia, squint, tropia.
stra·bis’mal (-məl) or stra·bis’mic (-mĭk) adj.

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