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strabismus
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Strabismus \Stra*bis"mus\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to squint, fr. ? distorted, squinting.] (Med.) An affection of one or both eyes, in which the optic axes can not be directed to the same object, -- a defect due either to undue contraction or to undue relaxation of one or more of the muscles which move the eyeball; squinting; cross-eye.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a squinting," 1680s, medical Latin, from Greek strabismos, from strabizein "to squint," from strabos "squinting, squint-eyed," related to strobos "a whirling round," from PIE *streb(h)- "to wind, turn" (see strophe). Earlier in anglicized form strabism (1650s). Related: Strabismal; strabismic; strabismical.
Wiktionary
n. 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.
WordNet
n. abnormal alignment of one or both eyes [syn: squint]
Wikipedia
Strabismus is a condition in which the eyes do not properly align with each other. This interferes with binocular vision because it prevents a person from directing both eyes simultaneously towards the same fixation point. It also typically affects depth perception. Heterotropia is a medical synonym for the condition.
Strabismus typically involves a lack of coordination between the extraocular muscles. Strabismus is present in about 4% of children. Treatment should be started as early as possible to ensure the development of the best possible visual acuity and stereopsis.
The term is from the Greek strabismós. Colloquial terms for strabismus include "cross-eye", "wall-eye", and a "cast of the eye". In British English it is sometimes referred to as a "squint", though that word more broadly is a verb meaning 'to narrow the eye opening', not related to strabismus.
Strabismus was originally identified as a Drosophila protein involved in planar cell polarity. Flies with mutated strabismus genes have altered development of ommatidia in their eyes. Vertebrates have two Strabismus-related proteins, VANGL1 and VANGL2 (an alternate name for the Drosophila "Strabismus" protein is "Van Gogh").
The amino acid sequence and localization studies for Strabismus indicate that it is a membrane protein. Prickle is another protein in the planar cell polarity signaling pathway. Prickle is recruited to the cell surface membrane by strabismus. In cells of the developing Drosophila wing, Prickle and Strabismus are concentrated at the cell surface membrane on the most proximal side of cells.
Usage examples of "strabismus".
Angell and Elsner in March, 1895, reported a case of anencephaly, or rather pseudencephaly, associated with double divergent strabismus and limbs in a state of constant spastic contraction.
Eyes show strabismus and nystagmus, also arteriovenous nicking and silver-wiring.
Strabismus drew the diagrams but used the newfangled appliqué alphabets printed on transparent cellophane for the lettering.
It is like strabismus, chloroform, lithotrity, a heap of monstrosities that the Government ought to prohibit.
Strabismus might possess to enable him to seduce her mother so outrageously, but in mid-July the world-famous scientist, as his brochures described him, came personally to Clay to solicit further funds for the impending plenary session of the Visitors, the one which would determine pretty much how the United States would be governed after the takeover.
The nation, as if surfeited with the marvels of space and medicine and science and sophisticated social analysis, seemed hungry for anti-intellectual preachment, and Leopold Strabismus was eager to provide it.
In the United States it is used to treat two rare eye conditions, blepharospasm and strabismus, both of which involve excessive muscle contractions.
Leopold Strabismus, president of Universal Space Associates and chancellor of the University of Space and Aviation, for he knew in his bones that massive changes were under way in American life and that space was only a fragment of the whole.
Ancestors of Mott and Strabismus had chosen opposing sides in Assyria and at Stonehenge.
Strabismus might possess to enable him to seduce her mother so outrageously, but in mid-July the world-famous scientist, as his brochures described him, came personally to Clay to solicit further funds for the impending plenary session of the Visitors, the one which would determine pretty much how the United States would be governed after the takeover.
Wise science teachers, sensing the shift in public opinion, accorded more time and emphasis to creationism, as they called it, than to the much-ridiculed theory of evolution, and a generation of California students was beginning to believe that Darwinism was a fraud perpetrated by atheistic humanists, because Reverend Strabismus and the other preachers who shared his television show said so.
America was going to make an ass of itself in the eyes of the world if it engaged in a know-nothing persecution of science, and they had begun to make some headway when Strabismus and a score of his associates launched a frontal assault, charging the professors with being atheistic humanists and Communists.
When the unnamed girl sitting in the corner had been picked up near Archbold, a sixteen-year-old girl with strabismus had been shot and left in a ditch.
The Staffordshire dogs in the breakfast room were good examples of concomitant convergent strabismus.
Strabismus in her sultriest manner, as if to say: “I know you’re a fraud, an outrageous fraud, and if I had you alone for two minutes, I’d have your pants down.