Strabismus Definition

strə-bĭzməs
noun
A disorder of the muscles of the eyes, as cross-eye, in which both eyes cannot be focused on the same point at the same time.
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Singular:
strabismus
Plural:
strabismuses

Origin of Strabismus

  • From Modern Latin strabismus, from Ancient Greek στραβισμός (strabismos), from στραβίζω (strabizō, “to squint"), from στραβός (strabos) (strabos, “squinting"; whence the synonymous Latin strabus).

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  • New Latin from Greek strabismos condition of squinting from strabizein to squint from strabos squinting streb(h)- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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