latent strabismus

latent strabismus
Ophthalm.
the tendency, controllable by muscular effort, for one or both eyes to exhibit strabismus.

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  • latent strabismus — noun : a tendency to squint controllable by muscular effort * * * Ophthalm. the tendency, controllable by muscular effort, for one or both eyes to exhibit strabismus …   Useful english dictionary

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  • heterophoria — heterophoric /het euhr euh fawr ik, for /, adj. /het euhr euh fawr ee euh, fohr /, n. Ophthalm. a latent strabismus of one or both eyes. [1885 90; HETERO + Gk phoria a carrying, equiv. to phor(os) PHOROUS + ia IA] * * * …   Universalium

  • heterophoria — noun Latent strabismus, which occurs only during dissociation of the left eye and right eye, whereby fusion of the eyes is absent …   Wiktionary

  • exophoria — Tendency of the eyes to deviate outward when fusion is suspended. SYN: exodeviation (1). [exo + G. phora, a carrying] * * * ex·o·pho·ria .ek sə fōr ē ə n latent strabismus in which the visual axes tend outward toward the temple compare… …   Medical dictionary

  • hyperphoria — A tendency of the visual axis of one eye to deviate upward, prevented by binocular vision. [hyper + G. phora, motion] * * * hy·per·pho·ria fōr ē ə, fȯr n latent strabismus in which the visual axis of one eye deviates upward in relation to the… …   Medical dictionary

  • estrabismo latente — Eng. Latent strabismus Ver foria …   Diccionario de oftalmología

  • convergiometer — con·ver·gi·om·e·ter (kən vur″je omґə tər) [convergence (def. 3) + meter] an instrument for measuring latent strabismus …   Medical dictionary

  • esophoria — ˌesəˈfōrēə sometimes ˌēs noun ( s) Etymology: New Latin, from eso + phoria : squint in which the eyes tend to turn inward toward the nose : latent strabismus …   Useful english dictionary

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